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Delayed email delivery to Microsoft-hosted inboxes

Degraded Lasted 3h 24m · started · BigCommerce's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Email
Down Index
29of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use BigCommerce Email. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 3h 24m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-09-04 09:19 UTC and 2026-09-04 12:43 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from BigCommerce 3

  1. investigating

    We are investigating delayed email delivery for some transactional emails, such as order confirmations and notifications. The delay affects recipients with Microsoft-hosted inboxes (Outlook.com, Microsoft 365). Other email providers are not affected. We will post an update as we have more information.

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  2. monitoring

    Commerce engineers have applied mitigations to improve email delivery to Microsoft-hosted inboxes (Outlook.com, Microsoft 365). Delivery rates are improving and we are continuing to monitor them.

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  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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Questions about DWN-da5e07ec54

Is BigCommerce still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-04 12:43 UTC. For BigCommerce's live state, see https://down.guide/bigcommerce.

How long did it last?

3h 24m, from 2026-09-04 09:19 UTC to 2026-09-04 12:43 UTC, by the times BigCommerce posted.

What was affected?

BigCommerce named Email.

What caused it?

BigCommerce hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

BigCommerce's official status page, https://status.bigcommerce.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.