FastMail Is Down [502]

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And their status page[0] actually indicates it as well!

I'm used to the status pages from Amazon, Google, etc. pretending everything is okay for about the first hour or so of an outage.

[0] https://www.fastmailstatus.com/

Might be a good idea to replace link with https://www.fastmailstatus.com/

Of course this happens on the one day I actually have time sensitive emails. Sigh.

IMAP and SMTP are still working for me (imap.fastmail.com and smtp.fastmail.com), but if you have not yet created an "app specific password" you will not be able to log in as their servers will not accept your account-level Fastmail password.

Even IMAP and SMTP are not working for me. I have it set up on my phone and neither pulling nor sending emails work. Luckily the emails were locally cached though so I sent notifications that my email was down through my Gmail and that took care of it.

It's a DDoS, apparently:

> We're experiencing a distributed denial of service attack. This affects your ability to login on the web & mobile. It may also create delays sending & receiving mail. We're working with our network provider to resolve this. We'll post more information as it is available.

https://www.fastmailstatus.com/services/general

Looks like it's back up now.

Back up for me as well. Status page says it’s a DDoS.

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