Rootnet incident

Outgoing mail delivery issues

Major Resolved View vendor source →

Rootnet experienced a major incident on July 23, 2026 affecting Rootnet.email - Webmail and BIT, Ede and 1 more component, lasting 2h 4m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jul 23, 2026, 07:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 23, 2026, 09:16 AM UTC
Duration
2h 4m
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 23, 2026, 07:12 AM UTC

Affected components

Rootnet.email - WebmailBIT, EdeeuNetworks, AmsterdamRootnet.email - SMTP

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jul 23, 2026, 07:12 AM UTC

    We are currently experiencing outgoing mail delivery issues. Because of this e-mails are being held in the mailqueue and delivery is delayed. This is currently being investigated by our upstream provider. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

  2. investigating Jul 23, 2026, 07:30 AM UTC

    Our upstream e-mail provider has confirmed the issue is on their end. They are currently urgently working on a fix for this issue. Once we receive further details, we will update the incident.

  3. monitoring Jul 23, 2026, 08:01 AM UTC

    We are seeing recoveries since 09:54 and mail is being delivered again. Mail that was sent during the outage will be delivered with a delay on the next delivery attempt by the mail-daemon. We are currently monitoring the situation with our upstream provider to ensure the issue is completely resolved.

  4. resolved Jul 23, 2026, 09:16 AM UTC

    The issue has been resolved. We will work with our mail-provider to determine the cause of this incident in order to prevent this from happening again.