The mail queue on server NC018 (the primary mail server) is currently significantly backed up. We’re looking into the cause of the problem and will post updates here.
The mail queue on server NC018 (the primary mail server) is currently significantly backed up. We’re looking into the cause of the problem and will post updates here.
We have stabilised the load on server NC018. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Server NC018 — the server on which most websites and email are hosted — is under a heavy load at the moment. We are working to throttle services to bring it down to a more acceptable load, and are making progress.
We’ve cleaned up the spam and restarted SMTP on server NC018 at 22:13 UTC. You can now send email again.
We continue to work against the spam, and are escalating the defences. We’ve seen a huge increase in spam the last couple of days from multiple sources, including from throwaway domains registered through a single, reputable registrar. Once we determine the IP addresses of that registrar’s mail servers, we’ll be blocking them until they stop hosting and doing business with spammers.
Once again we apologise for the inconvenience.
We are once again dealing with a spam problem on NC018 and have shut down the SMTP server. This means that you will not be able to send email for now. We are working on this issue as fast as we can.
SMTP (the outgoing mail server) on NC018 was restarted at 18:20 UTC after the spam problem was cleaned up. We apologise again for the inconvenience.
We have temporarily stopped SMTP on server NC018 while we clean up a spam issue. This means that most of our clients will not be able to send email through their own server.
We’re actively working on this issue and will restart SMTP as soon as possible, and post an update here.
We apologise for the inconvenience.
The following four domains that were blocked a couple of weeks ago have been unblocked after liaising with the company involved:
Thanks for your patience while we worked to resolve this issue.
We have taken the unusual step of blocking mail to and from certain domains on our primary mail server that are not (to our knowledge) sources of spam. These domains are:
Please see the full details on the company blog.
Server NC018 is back up. We’re investigating the issue.
Systems at a Glance:
Loc. | System | Status | Ping |
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NC023 | Internal | Up? | |
NC028 | Internal | Up? | |
NC031 | Internal | Up? | |
NC033 | Operational | Up? | |
NC034 | Internal | Up? | |
NC035 | Operational | Up? | |
NC036 | Operational | Up? | |
NC040 | Internal | Up? | |
NC041 | Operational | Up? | |
NC042 | Operational | Up? |
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