Postmark statusManual checkVerified May 24, 2026Source: status.postmarkapp.com
Is Postmark down?
Live status check · No widespread incident reported.
Most recent manual verification mirrored from status.postmarkapp.com. Below: the components that can break, what to do during an incident, and how to keep your scheduled jobs running independently.
About Postmark status
Postmark is a long-standing transactional email API known for fast delivery and clear status posture. Incidents are usually scoped to one feature — outbound API, inbound parsing, webhook delivery — and resolved quickly.
Components and surfaces that can break
- Surface 01
Outbound API (POST /email, POST /email/batch).
- Surface 02
Inbound parsing and inbound webhook delivery.
- Surface 03
Bounce / open / click event webhooks, Templates, the dashboard.
Recent Postmark incidents
Postmark maintains a public incident history. Read the latest entries to see whether you're hitting a known issue, and look at the post-mortems for context on how long similar incidents typically take to clear.
What to do if Postmark is actually down
Outbound and inbound are separate components
status.postmarkapp.com lists them separately. An inbound parsing incident doesn't stop your password-reset emails from going out, and vice versa.
Queue sends, don't drop them
If POST /email returns 5xx, queue the send in your own DB or job system. Postmark does not retry your request for you; the message is unsent until you re-call the API.
Webhook redelivery is supported, but check yours
Postmark retries failed webhook deliveries for several hours. Once recovery is reported, spot-check your /webhooks/postmark endpoint to confirm events caught up.
Keep firing through the incident
Schedule your own Postmark health check with Crontap
Scheduled email digests, weekly summaries, and recurring transactional batches are HTTP cron against your own endpoint that wraps Postmark. Crontap fires the endpoint, retries on 5xx, and gives you a clear failure log to debug from when Postmark or your code throws.
External HTTP cron hits your endpoint on the cadence you pick, stores every response, and emails you the moment a run fails. Pro schedules down to 1 minute; $3.25/mo annual flat for unlimited jobs.
Go deeper
Postmark status: FAQ
- Where do I check Postmark status?
- status.postmarkapp.com publishes per-component status with separate indicators for outbound, inbound, webhooks, and the dashboard. Their status page is one of the more granular ones in the email-API space.
- Does Postmark retry sends that failed during an outage?
- No. POST /email is the trigger — if it returned 5xx, the message was never accepted. Your app needs to retry the request once Postmark is back.
- How do I get notified if my Postmark integration breaks?
- Probe a /api/email-health endpoint on your app every few minutes with Crontap. Have the endpoint do a small Postmark API call (e.g. servers/me). If Postmark or your auth is broken, you'll hear about it within a few minutes — independent of Postmark's own status page.