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Outage in Exclaimer

Possible Routing issues within MEA & US region for Microsoft Customers

Minor
April 04, 2026 - Started 5 days ago
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Exclaimer Engineers are investigating a possible issue for customers in the MEA region who are unable to route emails to Exclaimer for Server-Side signatures, with messages being deferred and delayed. Emails are continuing to be processed. If any possible sending delay needs to be avoided, you can disable the Mail flow rules for Exclaimer Cloud within the Exchange Admin Center. This does not look to impact all customers within the region. More information will be provided when available.

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
MONITORING about 12 hours ago - at 04/08/2026 10:43AM

Exclaimer Engineers are continuing to monitor the situation at this time. The rate of messages being deferred due to the connecting server failing to provide the email has dropped substantially as well since Monday.

We are continuing to reach out to Microsoft to discuss the issue and obtain a complete understanding of it, and to confirm that the issue has been addressed.

IDENTIFIED 2 days ago - at 04/07/2026 01:18AM

Error rates have continued to decrease, and we’re now seeing minimal errors across both the MEA and US regions.
We’re still actively working with Microsoft to better understand the root cause, overall impact, and confirmation of the fix.

If the issue continues for any affected users, disabling the Exclaimer transport (mail flow) rule remains a valid temporary workaround.

IDENTIFIED 3 days ago - at 04/06/2026 01:45AM

We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

IDENTIFIED 3 days ago - at 04/06/2026 01:44AM

We are seeing continued improvements in mail flow performance. We are currently working with Microsoft to confirm whether their fix has been fully deployed.

Error rates have decreased, and we are no longer observing issues in the MEA region. However, some customers in the US region are still experiencing impact.

At this time, the mail flow rule disablement workaround can be safely reverted for customers who previously applied it to avoid delays.
For customers who are still experiencing the issue, or encounter any new occurrences, we recommend disabling the Exclaimer transport rule (mail flow rule) as a temporary workaround.

We will continue monitoring the situation closely and will provide further updates once we receive confirmation from Microsoft.

IDENTIFIED 4 days ago - at 04/04/2026 02:44PM

Exclaimer Engineers are continuing to investigate issues affecting customers in the MEA region who are facing delays or deferrals when sending emails.

Our findings indicate that Exclaimer itself is functioning properly in the region, and successful connections are being established for all incoming messages. Occasionally, we notice that our monitoring systems initiate a connection but then disconnect before completing the message transfer. Since these cases don't reach our servers, it suggests that the problem is likely outside of Exclaimer's framework, occurring when the sending email server attempts to route messages.

We have contacted Microsoft to further investigate the situation.

For customers experiencing delays in mail flow, an immediate workaround is to disable the Exchange Mail Flow rules. Despite the delays, we confirm that all messages are eventually being processed by Exclaimer as expected.

INVESTIGATING 5 days ago - at 04/04/2026 10:00AM

Exclaimer Engineers are investigating a possible issue for customers in the MEA region who are unable to route emails to Exclaimer for Server-Side signatures, with messages being deferred and delayed.

Emails are continuing to be processed. If any possible sending delay needs to be avoided, you can disable the Mail flow rules for Exclaimer Cloud within the Exchange Admin Center.

This does not look to impact all customers within the region. More information will be provided when available.

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