Quick note to GMail users…

Some of you may have heard about Google's minor meltdown this morning – see here.  One of the side effects of the melt down was the possibility that email was accidentally listed as spam that was in fact legitimate email.  From Google's Blog post:

This morning there was a problem with the implementation of Google's malware filters. Gmail's spam engine uses those filters (among hundreds of other signals) to help protect our users from malware, and so between 6:00 a.m. PST and 8:00 a.m. PST, we mistakenly sent some legitimate mail to people's spam folders.

We're working to roll out an automated fix to put these legitimate messages back into your inboxes, and we expect this to happen within a day. In the meantime, if you were expecting a critical message this morning, please check your spam folder. (We tune our spam filters well enough that ordinarily you should never have to check your spam folder.

If you happen to use GMail, take a look at your Spam folder to make sure you did not miss any legitimate email.