Mailgun outage, October 2025: Delayed Message Processing in US
Mailgun reported and resolved an incident: Delayed Message Processing in US. It lasted 1.7 hours.
OKResolved
From Mailgun's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 1.7 hours
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- Outbound Delivery
- Investigating
- Identifiednot posted
- 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 25 Oct 2025, 2:58 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.
- monitoring
We have identified processing delays for some messages in our US region. A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring the recovery.
- monitoring
Queues are being worked through, we continue to monitor resolution.
- monitoring
Operations are back to normal and queues are cleared. We'll continue to monitor.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 1.7 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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