Cloudflare Status · History · Incident #6841

RESOLVED

Cloudflare Access one-time PIN emails blocked by certain email security gateways, including Proofpoint

Minor · Started Aug 31, 2026 · 8:16 PM

  • Duration

    1h 46m

  • Severity

    Minor

  • Detection lead

  • User reports

Summary

Cloudflare Access one-time PIN emails blocked by certain email security gateways, including Proofpoint

This incident has been resolved and the developer documentation has also been updated to reflect the same information: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/integrations/identity-providers/one-time-pin/#allow-otp-emails-through-your-email-gateway


  • Started

    Aug 31, 2026 · 8:16 PM

  • Resolved

    Aug 31, 2026 · 10:02 PM

  • Duration

    1h 46m

  • Severity

    Minor

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • Investigating

    Aug 31 · 8:16 PM Cloudflare

    Some customers using Proofpoint may experience delayed Cloudflare notifications and login codes. Proofpoint is temporarily deferring messages with an SMTP 421 4.7.0 response. Cloudflare will continue retrying delivery. Affected customers should ask their Proofpoint administrator to allowlist notify.cloudflare.com and Cloudflare IPs 104.30.16.2,104.30.16.3,104.30.16.4,104.30.16.5,104.30.16.6, and 104.30.16.7. If this cannot be configured locally, contact Proofpoint for additional support.

  • Identified

    Aug 31 · 8:47 PM Cloudflare

    Some customers using Proofpoint may experience delayed Cloudflare notifications and login codes. Proofpoint is temporarily deferring messages with an SMTP 421 4.7.0 response. Cloudflare will continue retrying delivery. Affected customers should ask their Proofpoint administrator to allowlist notify.cloudflare.com and Cloudflare IPs 104.30.16.2,104.30.16.3,104.30.16.4,104.30.16.5,104.30.16.6, and 104.30.16.7. If this cannot be configured locally, contact Proofpoint for additional support.

  • Monitoring

    Aug 31 · 8:49 PM Cloudflare

    Some customers using Proofpoint may experience delayed Cloudflare notifications and login codes. Proofpoint is temporarily deferring messages with an SMTP 421 4.7.0 response. Cloudflare will continue retrying delivery. Affected customers should ask their Proofpoint administrator to allowlist notify.cloudflare.com and Cloudflare IPs 104.30.16.2,104.30.16.3,104.30.16.4,104.30.16.5,104.30.16.6, and 104.30.16.7. If this cannot be configured locally, contact Proofpoint for additional support.

  • Resolved

    Aug 31 · 10:02 PM Cloudflare

    This incident has been resolved and the developer documentation has also been updated to reflect the same information: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/integrations/identity-providers/one-time-pin/#allow-otp-emails-through-your-email-gateway

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