Service Alerts
Service Alert: Zimbra Server Moves/Outages
On Wednesday night (22nd Jan) we will be moving the three Zimbra servers in our data centre to a different rack. This work will start shortly after 10pm, and will involve a short outage for each server, hopefully in the region of 10-15 minutes, but possibly longer if...
Service Alert: Issue with Office 365 SMTP Forwarding
We've just been made aware of an issue that started on Wednesday night (8th Jan) and affects customers using our service to forward to Microsoft using *.mail.protection.outlook.com addresses. It seems that Microsoft changed something in the way they present the IPv6...
Service Alert: Former MrSite customers – possible email issue
We’ve had reports from a number of former MrSite customers regarding intermittent inbound email delivery issues today. On investigation they all have the same thing in common - they are still using MrSite MX Records for their domains as follows: 10 a.mx.mrsitemail.com...
Service Alert: DKIM Launch
GMail, along with a number of other email platforms, are insisting on stronger email credentials: setting an SPF Record for your domain is an absolute essential now, but DKIM and DMARC are becoming increasingly relevant. We have now launched support for DKIM - details...
Service Alert: Ongoing Microsoft Mail Delivery Issues
Further to our Service Alert of March 1st we are again seeing delivery issues to email addresses hosted by Microsoft. The issue eased over the weekend, but re-appeared yesterday afternoon. As result some emails to Microsoft recipients are stuck in outbound queues and...
Service Alert: Issues with latest versions of Microsoft Outlook
It has become apparent that there are issues with the latest versions of Microsoft Outlook that preclude its use with non-Microsoft email platforms, such as ours....
Service Alert: Microsoft Mail Delivery Issues
We're in the process of making some back-end changes on our outbound SMTP servers. This is resulting in using some different IP addresses when we send emails. Unfortunately, this can have some undesired effects with Microsoft as it can trigger their anti-spam systems,...
Service Alert: Network Issues
There is currently a network issue which is having an impact on inbound and outbound email. We are currently investigating and will post a update as soon as we have more information. UPDATE: 17:17 22/01/24 There is a DNS issue at our main anti-spam blacklist provider...
Service Alert: Zimbra – blank email content in Outlook
A number of Zimbra users have reported issues with blank content when using Outlook with Zimbra. Apparently this is related to some recent Outlook updates from Microsoft - Zimbra are aware and working towards a resolution. More information can be found here....
Service Alert: Zimbra 10 Upgrades
We will be updating our Zimbra Servers to Zimbra 10 over the course of the next 2 weeks. This work will be performed between 22:00 - 01:00 BST on the following dates, and each will incur a short period of downtime whilst the upgrades are applied: Zimbra002 – Tuesday...