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Outbound Email and Draft Creation Issues

Degraded Lasted 13m · started · Help Scout's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Email Processing
Down Index
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What to do

  • Check whether you use Help Scout Email Processing. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 13m it lasted.

    Anything that failed between 2026-03-25 17:47 UTC and 2026-03-25 18:00 UTC may need a replay.
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Updates from Help Scout 2

  1. investigating

    We’re currently investigating reports of outbound email and draft creation issues. We will continue to update as we have more information.

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  2. resolved

    Resolved - Our team has identified and resolved the issue. Outbound emails are being delivered again. Sorry for the trouble today, everyone.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-880060d327

Is Help Scout still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-03-25 18:00 UTC. For Help Scout's live state, see https://down.guide/help-scout.

How long did it last?

13m, from 2026-03-25 17:47 UTC to 2026-03-25 18:00 UTC, by the times Help Scout posted.

What was affected?

Help Scout named Email Processing.

What caused it?

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

Where does this come from?

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