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The Wayback Machine is back (partly)

The Internet Archive is back ... partially. After a data breach and denial-of-service attack brought the site down on October 9th , the service appears to be (somewhat) resurrected. On the Internet Archive homepage they've published a Service Availability notice indicating that everybody's favorite Wayback Machine is back online, but only in read-only mode. Meaning that any new chan…
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Microsoft 365 was quarantining some image-containing emails (EX873252)

Microsoft's Exchange Online was suffering from a false positive filtering issue that led it to flag some emails as malware and quarantine them based on a false positive signature match for some percentage of emails containing images. Things I don't know: Was it all imag…

iCloud Private Relay issue July 25-28

Were you concerned about a drop in open rates starting on Thursday, July 25th, and running through most of the weekend? It turns out, it's not just you. Apple suffered an outage during that time; the issue affecting their "iCloud Private Relay" functionality (whic…

Yahoo seeing inbound delivery delays -- should be fixed now

Starting perhaps around 7:00 am US central time on Friday, June 21, many senders started to see inbound email delivery delays when sending mail to Yahoo Mail subscribers (Yahoo, AOL, Verizon.net, and related domains). In addition to folks approaching me directly, various indust…

Microsoft: Intermittent STOREDRV.Deliver errors on April 9th

Are you tying to send mail to users at Microsoft OLC domains like Outlook.com and are receiving rejections back that look like this: 532 5.3.2 STOREDRV.Deliver; Missing or bad mailbox Database property If so, know that you are not alone. Microsoft seems to be rejecting some per…

Microsoft SNDS was down for maintenance 10/18

Microsoft's SNDS (Smart Network Data Services) , the reputation portal that provides deliverability feedback for folks sending to Microsoft Outlook.com/Hotmail, appears to have been down for some period of time on Wednesday, October 18th. While down, the site showed only an…

Microsoft: 451 4.7.500 Server busy delays on Wednesday 10/11

Today, Wednesday, October 11th, many senders are reporting trouble (specifically, delayed mail) when attempting to send email to Microsoft-hosted subscribers. Here's more on the issue from Steve Atkins from Word to the Wise .  I'm keeping a close eye on my Office365 adm…

Microsoft: SNDS Verification Emails not sending

Microsoft's SNDS ( Smart Network Data Service ) reputation feedback portal is having trouble at the moment. For at least the past week, people have been reporting that attempts to register and verify new IP addresses or ranges with SNDS are failing, because the verification…

Having trouble with the Yahoo FBL? You're not alone.

Multiple folks have reported via multiple forums today (May 22nd) that Yahoo's ISP Feedback Loop (called the " Complaint Feedback Loop /CFL") may not be working properly at the moment. People are reporting either no volume at all for the past few days or greatly …

Google Postmaster Tools down again 3/3

Looks like GPT is down again -- it's not just you. The user interface for Google Postmaster Tools is showing a spinning wheel and nothing else, as of 9:00 am US central time on Friday, March 3rd. When this happened last time , the API remained up (so if you pull GPT data i…

Outlook spam filters fall down, go boom

Mashable's Tim Marcin and others are reporting that a failure in Microsoft's spam filtering has resulted in Outlook.com (Hotmail) users receiving a bunch of spam in their inbox unexpectedly. Meaning, something broke -- a something that would have previously either blo…

Spamhaus suffered outage; is back now

From 17:00 GMT on Feb 16th through 09:50 GMT on February 17th, spam filterer/security service Spamhaus suffered an outage that meant that "data included in the Data Query Service, Rsync, Spamhaus Intelligence API, and Border Gateway Protocol Firewall was not refreshed bet…

Google Postmaster Tools trouble on 2/9

Google Postmaster Tools , the very handy domain reputation dashboard provided free of charge from the folks behind Gmail, is having trouble right now. Since at least early afternoon on Thursday, February 9th, users have been greeted with an eternal spinning wheel after logging …

Is Cyren shutting down? Probably.

Multiple folks are warning that internet security company Cyren is on the verge of shutting down . The company itself has not exactly said this, but reading between the lines, it seems inevitable; just about all staff laid off, and smart industry folks warning that while serve…

Italia Online inbound email issues

Italia Online/Libero Mail was having inbound email issues from January 22nd through 29th, impeding attempts to send mail to the domains libero.it, virgilio.it, inwind.it, iol.it, blu.it and giallo.it.  Senders are reporting various 4xx SMTP delays and timeouts when attempting t…

Gmail issues? You're not alone

Multiple folks are reporting Gmail delivery issues today -- both "571" style spam bounce blocks and spam folder placement. Some of the affected folks seem to be sending corporate mail, outbound from Proofpoint or Microsoft O365 hosted environments. It happens to some …

Gmail having issues; delivery delays reported

Google and various news outlets are reporting that Gmail had a significant outage today (Saturday, December 10th). Google reports that as of 4:16 PM UTC (10:16 AM US central time) things are on the mend, but that there's a backlog of messages to be delivered. I can't …

Problems sending to Microsoft over IPv6? You're not alone

Multiple folks over on the Mailop list are reporting that Microsoft OLC (Outlook.com/Hotmail/etc)'s IPv6 inbound mail servers are deferring inbound mail delivery attempts with "451 4.7.500 Server busy. Please try again later" errors. The fix seems to be to stop …

Buckeye Broadband Email System is Down

Ohio broadband provider Buckeye Broadband is reporting that its bex.net email service is offline. If you're a sender, I recommend pausing all sends to bex.net (and any other domains pointing at mx*.buckeyecom.net, if possible) until you see an all clear message from the I…

Google Postmaster Tools (GPT) was offline; is back

It's not just you! Many folks are reporting that Google Postmaster Tools is currently showing no data. I'm seeing this as well. In my case, my last data points appear to be from December 29th or so. At least one person suggested the outage goes back further than that, b…