MessagingEngine.com Server Outage

eftertanke · 10 Jul 2011, 07:31 PM

I just got this today:

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<h1>MessagingEngine.com Server Outage</h1>
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<p><b>IMPORTANT:</b> Some proxies seem to incorrectly cache this page.
To ensure you have the latest information, please hold down the
<b>Ctrl</b> key and click the <b>Refresh</b> or <b>Reload</b> button
in your browser to force a refresh of this page.</p>

<p>I'm sorry, the server your email is on is currently down. 
We apologise for the inconvenience; any email sent to you during
this time is being queued by another server and will be delivered
as soon as the server is working again.</p>

<p>Status updates about why this server is down and when it
will be working again will be posted to
<a href="http://status.fastmail.fm/">our status blog</a>.</p>

<p>Please check back in a few minutes to access your email.</p>

<p>Reported by frontend1.messagingengine.com</p>
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The status blog doesn't show any information. What's going on?

krimlin · 10 Jul 2011, 07:34 PM

The same here. IMAP isn't working either. Grrr...

flob · 10 Jul 2011, 07:37 PM

Since around 11am UK time...

nighthawk700 · 10 Jul 2011, 07:37 PM

No update on status.fastmail.fm yet...

patricius · 10 Jul 2011, 07:37 PM

Same problem here with my Family account:

"MessagingEngine.com Server Outage

IMPORTANT: Some proxies seem to incorrectly cache this page. To ensure you have the latest information, please hold down the Ctrl key and click the Refresh or Reload button in your browser to force a refresh of this page.

I'm sorry, the server your email is on is currently down. We apologise for the inconvenience; any email sent to you during this time is being queued by another server and will be delivered as soon as the server is working again.

Status updates about why this server is down and when it will be working again will be posted to our status blog.

Please check back in a few minutes to access your email.

Reported by frontend1.messagingengine.com
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jogu · 10 Jul 2011, 07:38 PM

Seems dead from the UK too. Nothing on http://status.fastmail.fm/ as yet.

eftertanke · 10 Jul 2011, 07:45 PM

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=62629

mac'd · 10 Jul 2011, 08:00 PM

interesting that it's down for about 30 minutes now (in the us for me as well) and only 5 posts here and no update on the status page.

There have been too many outages in the past year (at least 3) of over 30 minutes' duration. FM's regressing back to 2006 in terms of reliability.

Marklv · 10 Jul 2011, 08:05 PM

Maybe Fastmail has finally died.

If they've lost all the emails then I'm in deep crap - lots of essential stuff for me in my email box. I think I'll use Yahoo in future, Fastmail is too unreliable.

Terry · 10 Jul 2011, 08:11 PM

It must be a major fault as my mail is not being redirected to my back up email box...

Is fastmail only running on one sever now ?

htobias · 10 Jul 2011, 08:13 PM

Down for Germany.
Btw - here is the Pingdom report of the outage:

http://stats.pingdom.com/x8mbe1jgimkn/51754

vivil · 10 Jul 2011, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marklv

Maybe Fastmail has finally died.

If they've lost all the emails then I'm in deep crap - lots of essential stuff for me in my email box. I think I'll use Yahoo in future, Fastmail is too unreliable.

he is 11h12am GMT (11h12 europe) and no news of fastmail.fm sysops, they drank a lot
this night at NYC ? ^^

mac'd · 10 Jul 2011, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marklv

Maybe Fastmail has finally died.

If they've lost all the emails then I'm in deep crap - lots of essential stuff for me in my email box. I think I'll use Yahoo in future, Fastmail is too unreliable.

ugh. yahoo, the ultimate spam magnet. i have a very unusual last name, but a yahoo addy containing it that i never used anywhere managed to get inundated with spam within a few months of its creation. i'll never go back to yahoo

i've been with fm since 2002, and i don't recall problems with lost email. just too many outages through 2006 and well, this year.

vivil · 10 Jul 2011, 08:17 PM

plz use only one thread per outage thanks

krimlin · 10 Jul 2011, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mac'd

interesting that it's down for about 30 minutes now (in the us for me as well) and only 5 posts here and no update on the status page.

Maybe because it's Sunday?
I hope there is some person responsible working on FM side now...

However, it is dissatisfactory to post an explanation after every of the many outages occuring in the past few months. Simply stop them....

10 Jul 2011, 07:37 PM	#3
flob Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Location independent Posts: 149	Fastmail down!!! Since around 11am UK time...

10 Jul 2011, 08:00 PM	#8
mac'd Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 116	interesting that it's down for about 30 minutes now (in the us for me as well) and only 5 posts here and no update on the status page. There have been too many outages in the past year (at least 3) of over 30 minutes' duration. FM's regressing back to 2006 in terms of reliability. Last edited by mac'd : 10 Jul 2011 at 08:07 PM.

10 Jul 2011, 07:34 PM	#2
krimlin Essential Contributor Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 243	The same here. IMAP isn't working either. Grrr...

10 Jul 2011, 07:37 PM	#4
nighthawk700 Essential Contributor Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Baltimore, MD Suburbs (US) Posts: 237	No update on status.fastmail.fm yet...

10 Jul 2011, 07:37 PM	#5
patricius Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lisbon, PT Posts: 54	Same problem here with my Family account: "MessagingEngine.com Server Outage IMPORTANT: Some proxies seem to incorrectly cache this page. To ensure you have the latest information, please hold down the Ctrl key and click the Refresh or Reload button in your browser to force a refresh of this page. I'm sorry, the server your email is on is currently down. We apologise for the inconvenience; any email sent to you during this time is being queued by another server and will be delivered as soon as the server is working again. Status updates about why this server is down and when it will be working again will be posted to our status blog. Please check back in a few minutes to access your email. Reported by frontend1.messagingengine.com "

10 Jul 2011, 07:38 PM	#6
jogu Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 21	Seems dead from the UK too. Nothing on http://status.fastmail.fm/ as yet.

10 Jul 2011, 07:45 PM	#7
eftertanke Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Iowa, USA Posts: 8	http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=62629

10 Jul 2011, 08:05 PM	#9
Marklv Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Bracknell, U.K. Posts: 13	Maybe Fastmail has finally died. If they've lost all the emails then I'm in deep crap - lots of essential stuff for me in my email box. I think I'll use Yahoo in future, Fastmail is too unreliable.

10 Jul 2011, 08:11 PM	#10
Terry The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: VK4 Posts: 3,029	It must be a major fault as my mail is not being redirected to my back up email box... Is fastmail only running on one sever now ?

10 Jul 2011, 08:13 PM	#11
htobias Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Nuremberg, Germany Posts: 7	Down for Germany. Btw - here is the Pingdom report of the outage: http://stats.pingdom.com/x8mbe1jgimkn/51754

10 Jul 2011, 08:17 PM	#14
vivil Essential Contributor Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: France Posts: 472	plz use only one thread per outage thanks