Delayed delivery of some emails (affected domains: gmail.com and gmx.de)

Incident Report for Optimizely Service

Resolved

This incident has been resolved.
Posted Jan 16, 2026 - 17:09 UTC

Update

The underlying error has been corrected.

We started to route a small part of outgoing emails back to the affected systems and verified that performance is fine again.

We'll keep monitoring the systems closely as we slowly restore the original setup.
Posted Jan 16, 2026 - 14:11 UTC

Monitoring

Email delivery works again without any delays since around 10:39 UTC (mitigation applied to last system).

We are monitoring the systems.
Posted Jan 16, 2026 - 11:31 UTC

Identified

We've identified the underlying problem.
The queued/delayed emails are being delivered now.
Posted Jan 16, 2026 - 10:39 UTC

Update

We've rerouted emails from the impacted part of our sending infrastructure to the not impacted part.
New emails shouldn't be delayed anymore, but queued emails still need to be processed.

We're still looking for the underlying cause of the delay.
Posted Jan 16, 2026 - 10:22 UTC

Investigating

A part of the emails for recipients addressed to gmail.com and gmx.de are delivered with a delay. (Emails won't be lost.)

We are currently investigating.
Posted Jan 16, 2026 - 09:27 UTC
This incident affected: Campaign (Omnichannel Marketing Solution) - EMEA Region (E-mail dispatch).