Akamai: Inbound Email Service Issues
Affected components: Customer Service, Documentation and Community - EmailEmail
Timeline of updates
- investigating
We are investigating an emerging issue with Email Services that may have caused customers to experience bounced emails or email delays when emailing Akamai. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide another update within the next 30 minutes. We will soon be posting more details for customers and partners with a valid Control Center login at https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/group/0F90f000000DFgx/service-incident-notifications. If you have questions or are experiencing an impact due to this issue, please use the Support Center on Akamai Community (https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/support), or Akamai Control Center, to contact Akamai Technical Support. Contact information is available at https://www.akamai.com/us/en/support/.
- monitoring
We have implemented a fix for this issue as of 14:48 UTC on August 14, 2026; based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. Customers and partners can find more details on the Akamai Community: https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700001NmwELCAZ. We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated
- resolved
We can confirm that the issue was mitigated at 14:48 UTC on August 14, 2026, and the service has resumed normal operation. Customers and partners can view additional details about the incident by logging in to: https://community.akamai.com/customers/s/feed/0D5a700001NmwELCAZ or reaching out to Akamai Support. We apologize for the impact and thank you for your patience and continued support. We are committed to making continuous improvements to make our systems better and prevent a recurrence of this issue.
Archive proof
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This incident predates live tracking (October 17, 2026). It came from the vendor’s own published history, which is not covered by checkpoints.
Impact, status and times are the vendor’s own, as last archived. View on stspg.io (opens in new tab).