POP3 email problems

Within the last half hour I've been unable to download IDNet pop3 email. It was fine before. The usual passwod request followed by an authentification failure notice pops up:

There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your Password was rejected. Account: 'IDNet (username)', Server: 'pop3.idnet.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR Temporary authentication failure.', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC92

Anybody else?

EDIT: Now getting this error message:

The server responded with an error. Account: 'IDNet (username)', Server: 'pop3.idnet.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR AVG POP3 Proxy Server: Cannot connect to the mail server!', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90, Error Number: 0x800CCC90

I see folks over on Netters are experiencing problems, too.

Edited by ARD (Fri 27-Feb-09 15:07:45)

There's a problem with a database server which is causing authentication to fail. This affects access to the mail servers, customer accounts page, network status, RSS feeds and logins. IDNet hope to resolve it shortly.

Thanks for the explanation, Rik. I hope it is sorted out swiftly.

Last news I had was that they hoped to have resolved it in the next half hour or so.

Service restored at 15:48.

Back to normal. Fast work, IDNet!