Lettermint incident

API and SMTP relay degradation

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Lettermint experienced a minor incident on September 1, 2026 affecting Incoming and Team API and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 01, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 01, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC
Duration
—
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 01, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

Affected components

IncomingTeam APISMTP RelaySending APIOpen trackingClick tracking

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 01, 2026, 04:01 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We are investigating failing requests and retries affecting SMTP relay. Affected components Click tracking (Degraded performance) Open tracking (Degraded performance) Sending API (Degraded performance) Team API (Degraded performance) Incoming (Degraded performance) SMTP Relay (Degraded performance)

  2. resolved Sep 01, 2026, 04:06 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved On September 1, between 04:01 and 04:06 UTC, one of our API instances returned errors for a small number of requests. Some customers sending email through our API or SMTP service might have seen a submission or authentication error. Other instances remained healthy, and most requests continued normally. No email already accepted by Lettermint was lost. Failed requests stopped before we accepted or created the message, so clients could retry them after service recovery. A small number of email-open events might not have been recorded. No stored customer data was changed or exposed. The cause was a defect in the PHP JIT. We already had a safeguard for this issue, but it did not cover this additional code path. We expanded the safeguard and removed the affected date calculation from the application startup process. This lets us keep the performance optimisation active for the rest of the application. We will also install the permanent PHP fix when it becomes available in our production runtime which at the time of writing is not the case. We continue to monitor the service. We are sorry for the disruption. Affected components Team API (Operational) Incoming (Operational) SMTP Relay (Operational) Click tracking (Operational) Open tracking (Operational) Sending API (Operational)

  3. investigating Sep 01, 2026, 07:05 AM UTC

    Status: Investigating We have been made aware of this issue reoccurring again and are currently investigating. The incident has already been mitigated by killing the affected pod. We will share an update once we know more. Affected components Click tracking (Degraded performance) Open tracking (Degraded performance) Sending API (Degraded performance) Team API (Degraded performance) Incoming (Degraded performance) SMTP Relay (Degraded performance)

  4. resolved Sep 01, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

    Status: Resolved This incident has been resolved. SMTP relay and API are operating normally again. We have deployed further mitigation measures to prevent this incident from occurring again and are keeping a close eye. Apologies for the inconvenience this has caused. Affected components Sending API (Operational) Team API (Operational) Incoming (Operational) SMTP Relay (Operational) Click tracking (Operational) Open tracking (Operational)