: Mailgun outage: Intermittent email validation errors impact API
The Mailgun service experienced intermittent email validation errors impacting Email Services / API and Deliverability Services / Email Validation. Users trying to send mail could encounter API errors or validation failures, resulting in failed deliveries or delays. The incident began at as the status page moved to a warning and escalated to a broader disruption for the affected components by .
The provider issued four status updates during the incident, noting the intermittent errors, that a fix had been implemented, and that results were being monitored. The outage lasted roughly 2 hours and 35 minutes, with services returning to normal by after the components were brought back up. A sample user report described API errors when sending mail from Brooklyn.