It probably isn't going down every 5 minutes, that would be very unlikely.

Is your ISP having problems?

Regarding your e-mail, please e-mail support@lunarpages.com (with another account!) or telephone the office to get it looked at.

Mussavcom knows what I am talking about.  The server goes down for 5 minutes, not every 5 minutes.  It goes down for say 5 minutes every couple of days, and this is only time that I happen to see.  My bigger concern, however, is the email disappearing.

Hi triscuit,

I certainly understand your concern if you aren't receiving emails, but are these emails bouncing or just disappearing? How do you know you aren't receiving all of them basically.  Next, do you have Spam Assassin enabled? Is it possible at all that some of these emails you haven't received have been tagged as spam by the filter? If you do have Spam Assassin enabled, do you also use the Spam Box to view the emails?

Although the 5 minute outtages you are describing are worrisome (I have access to the emails the techs send whenever there is a server reboot or POP3 disabled, and danzig or libra aren't appearing there as having frequent outtages like this), I am most concerned about determining why your email would be missing.  Even during a POP3 disablement or reboot, the messages shouldn't disappear.  Please provide us with more information as well as contact support@lunarpages.com about this as soon as possible.

Thanks

even if the whole server was down for 12 hours or more you should still recieve email sent to you. Most likely the server paypal sends out their email with is configured to send out if it fails on first try.

Mail queues is usually run every hour, and retry time is usually set to 24 - 72 hours.

So the answer is. If email being down for five minutes every few days (if thats true) you would still be recieving your email without any issues.