Incident in Mimecast
3 months ago

Mail Processing Issues in South Africa

Resolved Minor
We are aware that some customers hosted on our South African grid may be experiencing mail flow issues. We are currently investigating the issue and updates will be posted here as they become available.
Components affected
South African Grid
Updates ( sorted recent to last )
at 03/23/2022 01:08PM

We are aware that some customers hosted on our South African grid may be experiencing mail flow issues. We are currently investigating the issue and updates will be posted here as they become available.

at 03/23/2022 01:24PM

We can confirm that we are now seeing normal mail flow on the South African grid, but we continue to investigate the cause. Thank you for your patience.

at 03/23/2022 01:58PM

We can confirm that email processing is performing normally. We will continue to monitor performance but all services should now be functioning normally.

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