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by dathinab 1971 days ago
Just a guess, but I think they are currently in the process of slowly doing some major infrastructure migrations.

And doing such thinks without downtime can be hard, especially if you did some design mistake at the beginning which wasn't obvious and didn't cause problems until they scaled to a much larger customer base and/or provided additional services (storage, calendar) which originally whern't planed/considered when creating the mail service.