[kintamanimatt]

From what I've read I'm under the impression that his paying customers have their mailboxes encrypted. The mailboxes themselves probably aren't deleted, but login has been disabled to protect his customers. There's a point where the password is in an unencrypted state on the web server, and he's probably been ordered to stream these unencrypted passwords off NSA HQ. By shutting down, LL is protecting against passwords being compromised.