Mailgun outage, May 2026: Automatic Sender Security Records Not Provisioning
Mailgun reported and resolved an incident: Automatic Sender Security Records Not Provisioning. It lasted 27.1 hours.
OKResolved
From Mailgun's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 27.1 hours
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- Control Panel
- Investigating
- Identified
- Monitoring
- Resolved
Why it happened
Mailgun has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
How it was resolved
Mailgun marked it resolved at 8 May 2026, 4:42 am without a written explanation of the fix.
Timeline
Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Mailgun's official status page, in their words.
- identified
Customers creating domains with Automatic Sender Security may have CNAME records with no corresponding TXT records reflecting DKIM keys. A fix for this issue is being prepared.
- identified
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- monitoring
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 27.1 hours.
- Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
- If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
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