← Back to the carnage
MAILGUN

🔴 Mailgun's US email validation is throwing 500s like confetti and the control panel decided to play hide-and-seek. Turns out validation is hard when your servers are having an existential crisis. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Jul 13, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

US Email Validation 500's and Mailgun Control Panel Unavailable

// Status page says

Jul 13 , 11:51 PDT Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Jul 13 , 11:23 PDT Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.mailgun.com/incidents/45hrj8r4pp7b

Mailgun's Greatest Hits

🟢 MAILGUN Aug 27, 2026
🟡 Mailgun's European infrastructure is playing dead while engineers frantically check if they unplugged it by accident. Turns out 'cloud' just means someone else's server is having an existential crisis. Your transactional emails are currently experiencing an extended meditation retreat. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 MAILGUN Aug 20, 2026
🟠 Google's West Coast datacenter decided to have an existential crisis, and Mailgun's juggling incoming mail like a one-armed circus performer. Log processing is moving at continental drift speeds while some messages are just... thinking about their life choices. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 MAILGUN Jul 13, 2026
🟡 Mailgun's validators started throwing existential 500s while the control panel decided it was done being controllable. Some users can access it, others get the digital shoulder shrug. Schrodinger's email service. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
🟢 MAILGUN Jul 10, 2026
🟠 Mailgun's dashboard decided to play hide-and-seek with a subset of users. Engineers identified the gremlin, deployed a fix, and are now nervously refreshing dashboards every 3 seconds to confirm it actually worked. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)