Thanks for the new information than noone has discovered before you.

Lot of us has understand (also via pingdom reports) than zero FM customers have an access to his mails.

http://stats.pingdom.com/w17m1yxzjyin

The MXes can not be down more than 22/23h due to the mail rejects from remote MX services which stops retries after 1 day....

After the POBOXrecovery h1 or 1h30 ago, the MXes was good... so no mail lost

else

https://twitter.com/FastMail/status/1024590260460642304

No Pobox Webmail. Of course, it's on the same infrastructure as FastMail.

ok now in France.

OK now with me in the UK.

OK here in Spain

A reminder to all, of my EMD Favorites Twitter web page:

https://twitter.com/EMDiscussions/lists/emd-favorites

There had been a previous occasion where FastMail had tweeted about problems, but not got around to updating their own status page.

next time (please) move MX2 + either POP or IMAP on a secondary network ^^

Like to see this post (link) sticky on the Forum. Can Edwin take care of that?

Was DNS for custom domains affected?
 

I have a question for those who park their own domains at FastMail. Did the outage affect access to the DNS of those domains?

Hi vivil,

Thanks for your kindness on stating the obvious ( as I did ) directly to me ( when other users did the same).

It was not the main purpose. Just to let know that at that specific moment another user was trying to use the service without sucess. Can you tell me any tool that states how many users were not able to use Fastmail, when intended to, during the outage?

That will be of help.

Regards.

The Register has picked this up (folks can comment there if they like):
FastMail takes a nap in network blunder
Not our fault insists email slinger as customers twiddle thumbs

Glad its all ok :)

The Register seems to try to create controversy with every article, but this type of thing does deserve a robust customer service response. Have they sent out an email explaining what was happening? I, as a POBox customer, only learned of the issue via Twitter, which is invaluable for breaking updates like that. IMHO reliability and security are the top two items I look for in an email provider. Everything else is way down the list.