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Formerly the Postini Current Status page, this page now provides a list of known issues, fixed issues, and system maintenances for Postini Services. For the current status and important updates on critical system issues that may be affecting Postini, please see the Apps Status Dashboard.

Please note: Due to high volume, we're unable to answer email about our known issues. When you click the 'Report' button, you'll send a report and help us to determine how many people are experiencing the issue.

System Maintenances
[Completed] Upcoming System Maintenance for all Postini systems: April 11, 2013 9:00PM-11:00PM PDT

Update April 12, 2003:  This maintenance has been completed.

 

On April 11, 2013, from 9:00PM-11:00PM PDT, Google engineers will be updating web and TLS certificates across all Postini systems.  

Secondary data centers will not be enabled for this maintenance event, and no interruption in Admin Console or Message Center access is expected.

 

 

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Known Issues
[RESOLVED] April 12, 2013: Message delays on Postini System 9 due to "421 server busy - psmtp" deferrals
Apr 12 2013, 05:16 PM PDT - We expect that some customers could continue to experience delays until early Saturday morning. We will be providing an official Google incident report next week. Apr 12 2013, 02:03 PM PDT - We are seeing elevated deferrals on Postini system 9 with the SMTP response "421 server busy - psmtp". Messages sent through Postini system 9 outbound may be affected by this issue. This will also affect internal mail for Google Apps customers who use Postini system 9 as their outbound gateway. Postini engineers are investigating this issue with a very high priority. We do not have an ETA for resolution at this time.

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[RESOLVED] April 13, 2013: Unspooling issues on System 8

April 13, 2013: The unspooling issue on Postini System 8 has been resolved.

If you have messages in the spool which do not appear to be unspooling, please ensure that your Spool Manager settings are set to either Automatic, or Manual with "Start Unspooling" started.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this issue has caused.

April 9, 2013: We are currently experiencing an issue with unspooling on Postini System 8. Some of the messages that were spooled up until April 9 have not unspooled, or have unspooled very slowly, even when the receiving mail server is available again.

Postini engineers are working to resolve this issue.

If you believe you may be affected by this issue, use the Log Search tab to search for messages in the last week that have been spooled but have not been delivered from the spool. A message which has been delivered from the spool will show two records in the Log Search tab (one for the message being spooled, and the second for the message being delivered from spool), while a message that has not been delivered from spool will only have one record in the Log Search tab showing the message was spooled.

If you have messages in the spool which do not appear to be unspooling, please ensure that your Spool Manager settings are set to either Automatic, or Manual with "Start Unspooling" started. The mail will not unspool immediately, but it will unspool eventually. Postini engineers continue to work around the clock to release the spooled mail.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this issue has caused.

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In rare cases spooling will not initiate
We are currently experiencing an issue on Postini Systems which causes messages to be not spooled eventhough the mail server is not accessible. Postini engineers are working to resolve this issue.
 
Workaround: For the time being we request you to manually turn on spooling using the procedure below
 
1. Open Spool Manager for the affected email config.
2. Set Spooling Mechanism to start manually and click Submit.
 
Once the mail server is accessible again you can set the spooling mechanism to be automatic

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Recent fixes

  • [Resolved] July 27, 2012 - Increase in False Positive Detections (Updated July 30, 2012)
  • [Resolved] Unable to view messages in Quarantine and not getting Quarantine Summaries.
  • [Resolved] Sporadic login issues for Admin Console [5439289]
  • [Resolved] September 9, 2011 12:15 PDT - Small percentage of System 5 users are experiencing delays with the quarantine summary notice. [5262323]
  • [Resolved] August 29, 2011 @ 15:50 PDT - Message Archive Recovery errors
  • [Resolved] Message Archiving: Occasional Search errors
  • [Resolved] - Message Archiving: PST Exports unavailable at this time
  • [Resolved] Batch--Adding users via Batch commands using welcome=1 returns error [3399280]
  • [Resolved] Attachment Manager--Microsoft Office 2007 Word (.docx) and PowerPoint (.pptx) files are incorrectly identified as ZIP files [1542203]
  • [Resolved] Postini Support Portal is unavailable
  • [Resolved] Message Archiving customers are unable to deliver archive messages
  • [Resolved] September 14, 2011 14:15 PDT - Small percentage of System 7 Google Message Discovery (GMD) administrators are unable to export archived email to the PST format. [5273299]
  • Resolved: September 22, 2011 : Delivering certain messages from the Message Center may result in an error.
  • [Resolved] October 10, 2011 - IP Lock batch commands have recently changed
  • [Resolved] October 4, 2011 - System 201 - Small percentage of messages not visible in quarantine [5398240]
  • [Resolved] July 11, 2011 - Batch Command to display IP Lock configuration displays error for Org names containing brackets [4443479]
  • [Resolved] September 26, 2011 - Small percentage of messages quarantined between Sept 19, 2011 and Sept 24, 2011 may appear multiple times in the Message Center, Admin Console or the Quarantine Summary [5352564]
  • [Resolved] October 10, 2011 17:00 PDT -Quarantined outbound messages with multiple recipients are sometimes delivered to only one recipient [1087256]
  • [Resolved] Small percentage of users are unable to access the administration console[5125843]
  • [Resolved] Postini MX host name resolution issue
  • [Resolved] Billing Issue in December Invoice
  • [Resolved] February 28, 2012 11:45 PM PST: Connectivity Issue with Postini Outbound server on System 9
  • [RESOLVED] July 23, 3:47PM PST - Postini System5 Outbound Messages Deferrals
  • [RESOLVED] June 14, 12:30 PM PST: Report Data is Behind on Systems 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 200 & 201