Matt
Administrator
Maintenance notification from our SMTP host:
System Alert - Planned Maintenance
This is a just a reminder for most of you, but on December 16th we're going to put Mandrill in read-only mode for a brief time for some planned maintenance.
We're adding some new servers to our cluster and moving data around to make things faster and more reliable for our users.
This change affects all Mandrill users. During the maintenance window, all sending operations will queue until the maintenance is complete at which time they will send immediately. All other operations will only be able to read data, not change things.
The outage is planned to take about an hour, according to our testing. Officially though, we're going to say that this will take a few hours (proper expectations and all).
The outage will be at:
6:00 AM GMT December 16th (Sunday morning).
What does read-only mode mean?
When Mandrill is in read-only mode, you can still log in to the system, see your stats, and search for your messages. Any new stats coming in like opens, clicks, and bounces will not be shown until the maintenance is complete. All user-driven modifications like template editing or adding webhooks and inbound domains will generate an error message letting you know that the system is under maintenance.
Both the API servers and SMTP servers will still be alive and receiving messages and requests during the maintenance window. Once the maintenance is done, all queued messages will be sent.