SparkPost incident
SMTP message delivery is delayed/slow for some SparkPost customers (US hosted only)
SparkPost experienced a minor incident on November 11, 2025 affecting SMTP Delivery - USA, lasting 1h 35m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
SMTP Delivery - USA
Update timeline
- investigating Nov 11, 2025, 02:51 PM UTC
We are investigating an increase in delivery latency for some outbound messages. (NOTE: This does not impact our customers hosted in the EU.)
- identified Nov 11, 2025, 03:01 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- resolved Nov 11, 2025, 04:10 PM UTC
This incident impacted a limited batch of messages injected via SMTP API. We have quarantined the impacted the node and working on delivering the messages and isolating the root cause. The SMTP API is full operational