A spam filtering problem hits thousands, leading to two days of overloading and delays.

Orcon customers forced to hunt for answers after spam attacks delay email services for weeks.

UPDATE: Vodafone email affected by an outage this afternoon has been resolved.

The company reports some customers were affected for about half an hour. 

An email server re-boot solved the problem and investigations are underway to discovered the cause of the problem.

Vodafone reports no emails were lost.

An unknown number of Vodafone fixed line customers have lost email services this afternoon.

Spokesman Matt East said some customers were reporting issues but few details were available including total numbers and areas affected.

The EMA campaign asking small businesses owners to email in their 90-day probation law success stories has stirred up a hornet’s nest of left-wing fury over the law.

Following the introduction of the new law in February, employers of fewer than 20 people can now include in employment contracts a 90-day probation period, during which they can dismiss new workers without facing personal grievance action.

UPDATE: Telecom says services were restored to customers at midday. The outage lasted for four and a half hours. The company has been unable to gauge how many customers were affected, nor discover the cause of the problem.

Telecom Broadband (formerly Xtra) is experiencing multiple problems with its email systems this morning.

Customers on Telecom's Officemail service, which supports personalised domain names, are unable to send email full stop, while some customers with Xtra addresses cannot send email from a client such as Outlook.

Ever returned to your desk after office drinks, or a long lunch, and sent an email you later regret? Relax, Google’s saving your bacon.

Just a week after announcing its global alternative energy policy, the many-tentacled search giant is back focusing on the personal.

The company has announced a new add-on to its email program, called Mail Goggles, which requires you to answer a series of maths problems, within a time limit, before it allows you to send an email.

Mail Goggles has gone live today, ready to protect against inappropriate email this weekend.