Fasthosts incident
Critical - Outbound Mail (SMTP) Service Unavailable
Fasthosts experienced a minor incident on December 2, 2025 affecting Sending Mail, lasting 6h 25m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Sending Mail
Update timeline
- identified Dec 02, 2025, 08:50 AM UTC
We are aware of a critical issue preventing all customers from sending outbound email via our SMTP servers. Messages will remain in your outbox and fail to send. This is a top priority for our engineering team
- identified Dec 02, 2025, 11:43 AM UTC
We are still working on resolving the technical issue.
- resolved Dec 02, 2025, 03:16 PM UTC
The issue has been resolved.