Outlook would not load during the November 12 outage. Photo: The Watertown Post.
By Watertown Post Staff | Watertown, New York | November 13, 2026
For a few hours Thursday, we thought everybody had decided to leave us alone. No questions, no tips, no emails asking why we said what we said. A quiet day at The Watertown Post? We should have known better. By the time we realized something was wrong, we couldn’t get into the inbox to read or reply to anyone.
We get our Microsoft 365 email through GoDaddy. In its public incident report, GoDaddy said Thursday afternoon that customers were having trouble signing into webmail and email apps. In a Thursday evening update, GoDaddy said Microsoft was testing a fix after finding that some servers were getting overwhelmed while trying to establish secure connections. That explains the silence on our end. It doesn’t tell us whether every message sent during the outage made it through.
We got back into news@watertownpost.com Friday morning and have started replying. If you sent a news tip, a business inquiry, or just a note and haven’t heard from us, we’re sorry for the delay. A lot of you should see a reply soon. If your message was urgent or bounced back, please resend it to news@watertownpost.com.
As it turns out, nobody was giving us the day off.
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