Fastmail Outage History

Type: Incident Duration: 2 hours and 19 minutes Affected Components: Web client and mobile app Mar 26, 16:45:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - Some customers are experiencing interrupted access to Fastmail services. We're looking into it. Mar 26, 18:13:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - We have implemented a fix for the issue and are currently monitoring the result. No mail has been lost. Mar 26, 19:04:28 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved, and we do not anticipate any further issues. No mail has been lost.

Type: Incident Affected Components: General Availability, Login & sessions, Web client and mobile app, www.fastmail.com Feb 23, 19:22:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Some customers may have experienced a short interruption of access to Fastmail services. This is resolved for all users and no data was lost. Feb 23, 19:24:01 GMT+0 - Resolved - Some customers may have experienced a short interruption of access to Fastmail services. This is resolved for all users and no data was lost.

Type: Incident Duration: 53 minutes Jan 16, 22:22:44 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jan 16, 21:30:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - Access to Fastmail services has impacted all customers. We're looking into it. Jan 16, 21:45:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Access to our services is no longer impacted. We are continuing to monitor.

Type: Incident Duration: 6 minutes Affected Components: Mail access (IMAP/POP), Web client and mobile app Jan 9, 21:41:15 GMT+0 - Investigating - Some customers are experiencing interrupted access to Fastmail services. We're looking into it. Jan 9, 21:47:00 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. No mail has been lost as a result of this incident, although delivery of some mail was delayed.

Type: Incident Duration: 1 hour and 16 minutes Affected Components: Mail delivery Dec 3, 02:59:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - There is an internal forwarding issue affecting email sending. We are currently investigating. Dec 3, 03:49:30 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Email sending has resumed for affected users. We are actively monitoring this service for any further issues. Dec 3, 04:14:35 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. No mail has been lost, and we don't anticipate further issues.

Type: Incident Duration: 3 hours and 23 minutes Affected Components: www.fastmail.com Nov 18, 12:30:00 GMT+0 - Identified - An outage at Cloudflare, our external web hosting provider, is preventing some users from accessing www.fastmail.com. Users should still be able to access webmail by going to [app.fastmail.com](http://app.fastmail.com) directly. Cloudflare hosts a large fraction of web content, so users may also see images or external links failing to load in emails. Nov 18, 15:53:08 GMT+0 - Resolved - Cloudflare has reported that this incident has been resolved.

Type: Incident Duration: 1 day and 16 hours Affected Components: Mail delivery Oct 28, 13:03:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - Some users are experiencing delayed mail delivery. We’re looking into the issue. Oct 28, 13:43:00 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. No mail has been lost as a result of this incident, although delivery of some mail was delayed.

Type: Incident Duration: 2 hours and 33 minutes Affected Components: Mail delivery Sep 17, 13:47:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - Some users are experiencing delayed mail delivery. We're looking into it. Sep 17, 14:50:48 GMT+0 - Investigating - Some users are still experiencing issues with delayed mail. We're continuing to look into this. Sep 17, 15:41:55 GMT+0 - Monitoring - We have resolved the issue that was causing delayed mail delivery. No mail has been lost. We're continuing to monitor. Sep 17, 16:19:49 GMT+0 - Resolved - The issue that was causing mail to be delayed has been resolved. No mail has been lost.

Type: Incident Duration: 1 hour and 16 minutes Affected Components: Mail access (IMAP/POP), Web client and mobile app Aug 25, 17:45:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - We experienced a brief issue that affected access and users may have experienced slowness in loading the web interface. Access to most services remained unaffected, and no email was lost. The issue was quickly identified and we are continuing to monitor. Aug 25, 19:00:38 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.

Type: Incident Duration: 1 hour and 54 minutes Affected Components: General Availability Aug 20, 11:25:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Cloudflare, our third-party DNS service provider, is currently having widespread issues. We are not aware of Fastmail customers being impacted, but we'll continue to monitor Aug 20, 13:13:06 GMT+0 - Monitoring - The Cloudflare issue is ongoing however we have not had any reports of impact to Fastmail customers. We are continuing to monitor. Aug 20, 13:18:48 GMT+0 - Resolved - Cloudflare is operative and did not experience any issue, the notification was sent in error during a dry run of their systems. Fastmail customers experienced no impact and we were fully operational.

Type: Incident Duration: 3 hours and 13 minutes Affected Components: General Availability Aug 13, 02:56:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - Our payment provider, Paddle, is currently experiencing issues which may cause errors or delays during checkout. Paddle’s team is working to resolve the problem. We'll provide an update here when we have more to share. For updates directly from Paddle, see . Aug 13, 05:36:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - Paddle engineers have identified the cause of the incident and have taken steps to resolve the issue. Aug 13, 06:09:04 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.

Type: Incident Duration: 1 hour and 4 minutes Affected Components: Web client and mobile app Aug 7, 14:35:09 GMT+0 - Resolved - Some customers were unable to access messages in the web UI and/or mobile app for approximately 90 minutes due to database issues. We have resolved the issue and do not expect any further interruptions. No mail has been lost. Aug 7, 13:00:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - Some customers are experiencing interrupted access to Fastmail services. We're looking into it.

Type: Incident Duration: 1 hour Affected Components: Contacts (CardDAV), Web client and mobile app, Calendar (CalDAV) Jul 4, 03:45:00 GMT+0 - Identified - A small number of users were unable to access their email for a short time due to a server issue. All Fastmail systems (mail, calendars, contacts, etc.) are still up and running. No data was lost. Jul 4, 04:45:00 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.

Type: Incident Duration: 9 minutes Jun 24, 03:50:00 GMT+0 - Identified - Outgoing mail is temporarily delayed due to network connectivity issues. Jun 24, 03:59:02 GMT+0 - Resolved - Outgoing mail was delayed temporarily due to network connectivity issues. This incident has been resolved and no mail has been lost.

Type: Incident Duration: 34 minutes Affected Components: General Availability, Web client and mobile app May 14, 02:51:00 GMT+0 - Investigating - May 14, 02:58:00 GMT+0 - Monitoring - The issue has been resolved, and we're actively monitoring the situation. May 14, 03:25:02 GMT+0 - Resolved - We experienced a brief issue that affected access to the web UI for a small number of users. Access to most services remained unaffected, and no email was lost. The issue was quickly identified and resolved within minutes.

Type: Incident Affected Components: Login & sessions May 12, 22:40:49 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved. May 12, 22:33:11 GMT+0 - Resolved - Some customers may have been logged out of their Fastmail account. This has now been resolved. No mail was lost. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

Type: Incident Duration: 3 hours and 24 minutes Affected Components: Web client and mobile app Apr 5, 03:00:00 GMT+0 - Identified - We have identified a server outage that has caused interrupted access to Fastmail services. We have mitigated this and the issue should be resolved for users at this time. We are continuing to investigate and no mail has been lost during this time. Apr 5, 05:37:40 GMT+0 - Monitoring - The issue has been resolved, and Fastmail access has been restored for all users. We are continuing to monitor. Apr 5, 06:24:26 GMT+0 - Resolved - We’ve corrected the issue, and Fastmail access has been restored for all users. No mail has been lost, and we don’t anticipate further issues.