White House e-mail system crashes

So the new White House finally gets its e-mail up and running smoothly, and then what happens?

The entire system crashes Monday morning.

The last e-mail from the White House press office before the breakdown arrived just before 9 a.m. Monday, advising that President Barack Obama’s event on energy independence in the East Room would be open to all media, instead of just the smaller group of reporters and photographers that typically follows the president.

The malfunction left inboxes in the White House complex and across town eerily empty.