We had reports from clients overnight of emails being delayed. We checked into it and saw intermittent delays of a few minutes, up to an hour (in one case) on a small number of emails. We’ve been keeping an eye on it, tweaked a setting and the delays have been resolved.
Email Delays to Outlook servers – RESOLVED
Clients are reporting delays (from only minutes, up to a few hours) in emails destined for Microsoft managed outlook.com addresses. This seems to stem from Monday’s Spamhaus RBL block (which was resolved then) since Microsoft uses them along with their own algorithms, so it may take a bit longer to resolve. We are working on […]
Spamhaus RBL Block – RESOLVED
We are currently working on an issue affecting a few of our customers sending mostly to outlook.com addresses, who are receiving bounces due to a spamhaus block. UPDATE: The spamhaus block is no longer affecting users and we’re continuing to monitor the situation.
SSL Certificate Lifetimes Are Shrinking: What the New 47-Day TLS Certificate Rules Mean
The CA/Browser Forum has approved a plan to reduce SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes over the next few years. Here’s the timeline and what organizations should expect. Last updated: March 2026 The rules for SSL certificate lifetimes are changing again. The CA/Browser Forum — the industry body that sets the policies for publicly trusted TLS certificates — […]
Scheduled Maintenance: cPanel Database Server Restarts
We will be performing scheduled updates on a number of our cPanel servers over the coming days. As part of this work, the database service will be restarted on each server. During the restart, there will be a brief service interruption affecting database-driven websites and applications. Maintenance Window:Monday–Friday, somewhere between 3:00am–5:00am ESTWe will complete 1–2 […]
Scheduled Maintenance: Outbound Mail Server Upgrade (March 16, 3:00am–6:00am EDT)
On March 16th between 3:00am and 6:00am EDT, we will be performing a scheduled maintenance window affecting our outgoing mail server: mailout.easymail.ca What We’re Doing During this window, we will be upgrading the outbound mail flow so that all SMTP connections are routed through an enhanced spam filtering layer. This change is part of our […]
