Email Services status today
No problems detected across 12 services right now. No user reports in the last hour.
- with issues now
- 0
- reports, last hour
- 0
- incidents, 30 days
- 0
- with official status page
- 2
All Email Services services
Last incident: official major or partial outages only. Website: daily reachability of the homepage from our checks.
Recent incidents
No major or partial outages on official status pages in the last 30 days. 2 of 12 services here publish an official status page.
Biggest Email Services outages
Major incidents since 2024, from news reports and official postmortems
Outlook and Exchange Online outage
several hours · Global
Email delivery delays to external domains
about 8 hours
Spam filtering failure and mail delays
about 5 hours · Global
Microsoft 365 email outage in North America
about 10 hours · North America
Outlook.com mailbox outage
several hours · Global
Worldwide failure sending emails with attachments
about 4 hours · Global
Is your email down, or only sending?
Real-time status monitoring for email providers and services. When emails aren't sending, aren't arriving, or you can't log in to your inbox, find out within minutes whether it's a provider-wide outage or a local issue. DownStatus collects reports from users worldwide.
- Send yourself a test message. If it arrives, sending and receiving both work and the delay is on the other side. If it bounces, the bounce code tells you which server refused it.
- Compare webmail with your mail app. If webmail works but the app does not, the problem is IMAP or SMTP settings or an app password, not the provider.
- Check your sending service. Services like Mailgun or Postmark can fail while personal inboxes work, so app emails like password resets stop first.
Frequently asked questions
Why are my emails not sending or arriving?
Email outages can affect sending, receiving, or both independently. Common causes include SMTP server failures, spam filter misconfiguration, DNS propagation issues, or backend database problems. Check this page to see if other users of the same provider are affected.
Which email services does DownStatus monitor?
DownStatus monitors major email providers including Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, ProtonMail, iCloud Mail, and others. Live status for each is shown above.
How long do email service outages usually last?
Most email outages are resolved within 30 minutes to 2 hours. Sending failures are usually fixed faster than receiving issues since they affect more users immediately. Check the outage history on each service's page to see typical resolution times.
What should I do if my email service is down?
For urgent messages, use an alternative email account or contact the recipient through another channel. Check your email provider's status page or social media for updates. If emails sent during an outage appear to have failed, don't resend immediately. Many "failed" emails are queued and delivered once the service recovers.