Help Scout outage, 8 April 2026

Inbound Email Issues

Started
Resolved
8 Apr 2026, 23:10 UTC (after 6 h 30 min)
Impact
Minor
Affected
Email Processing

Last update from Help Scout

It looks like the issue at Google has been resolved, so inbound emails forwarded to Help Scout from Google accounts should now be working as normal once again. If you do run into any further issues, just reach out to let us know.

8 Apr 2026, 23:10 UTC

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