BigCommerce Status · History · Incident #6975

RESOLVED

Delayed email delivery to Microsoft-hosted inboxes

Minor · Started Sep 4, 2026 · 4:19 AM

  • Duration

    3h 23m

  • Severity

    Minor

  • Detection lead

    —

  • User reports

    —

Summary

Delayed email delivery to Microsoft-hosted inboxes

This incident has been resolved.


  • Started

    Sep 4, 2026 · 4:19 AM

  • Resolved

    Sep 4, 2026 · 7:43 AM

  • Duration

    3h 23m

  • Severity

    Minor

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • ◐

    Investigating

    Sep 4 · 4:19 AM BigCommerce

    We are investigating delayed email delivery for some transactional emails, such as order confirmations and notifications. The delay affects recipients with Microsoft-hosted inboxes (Outlook.com, Microsoft 365). Other email providers are not affected. We will post an update as we have more information.

  • ◉

    Monitoring

    Sep 4 · 6:59 AM BigCommerce

    Commerce engineers have applied mitigations to improve email delivery to Microsoft-hosted inboxes (Outlook.com, Microsoft 365). Delivery rates are improving and we are continuing to monitor them.

  • ✓

    Resolved

    Sep 4 · 7:43 AM BigCommerce

    This incident has been resolved.

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