day after day after day I close my eyes. . .

[servermonkey]

now that's bizarre, you're up in the air.

and after much tinkering, and ending up with the same server settings as we'd had before, e-mail seems to be back up.

I've yet to figure out what exactly changed. it'd be nice to know a cause, in order to keep this from happening again. . .oh well, chalk it up to gremlins