Advisory: Reflexion - Delayed delivery of outbound and inbound email

To me, the sheer and utter lack of communication is the most upsetting part of this.  We understand that stuff happens.  But when you give us next to no information that we can pass along to our clients, it's basically unforgivable.

I have made the decision to start migrating my clients immediately.  Luckily I already have some clients on another solution.  I was previously going to move them over to Reflexion so we didn't have to manage two solutions.  But now it's going to be in the other direction.

Hi All,

My sincere apologies for any delays and inconvenience experienced.

Our team is actively working on resolving this incident and the following links will be updated accordingly when new information is available:

• Reflexion Status Page
• Advisory: Reflexion - Delays in the delivery of outbound and inbound email

I will report back with any other information that I receive.

Regards,

We've been monitoring those resources all day with no valuable information. Even looking at the information in the advisory, you are overdue for an update. Those resources are worthless at the moment. We need actionable information.

We're aware of those pages.  The point is any other provider would be giving us more than "Yup, sure seems to be broke."

The LEVEL of communication from Sophos on this issue is terrible.

Also, in Reflexion inbound AND outbound are throwing errors:

This is an example of an outbound message in the reporting within RTC for a client of ours:

ReasonERROR: Message is not accepted by the Internet delivery queue

So, is mail really being queued on the outbound for delivery or is the error reporting wrong?

Or should we be rerouting our send connectors too?

We're working with our development team to provide an ETA. We will share this information ASAP.

We are seeing a significant amount of undeliverable messages coming back from mail servers attempting to send to reflexion. I am not at all confident that reflexion is even queuing anything at this point:

Error Type: SMTP
  Connection to recipients server failed.
  Error: Host name: 208.70.211.233, message: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respondTried 6 time(s)

SOPHOS - we need you to tell us more than refer to a vague status update. If email is being rejected or not accepted we need to know that so we can assess the impact and take action as needed.

7/30/2019
6:15pm EDT - Reflexion is currently experiencing the following:

• We are currently experiencing a delay in the processing of inbound and outbound email.
• Delivery of outbound email flow is processing but at a slower rate as the delivery queues are catching up and working to return to normal levels.
• We are still experiencing a delay in delivery of inbound email and outbound email.
• Engineering is actively working to resolve mail flow service as quickly as possible. We will provide an update as soon as we have additional information.

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/134470

We are noticing a 3 hour gap from about 10:30PST to 1:30PST in our inbound message log.  This isnt just emails not being delivered, this emails are straight up missing from the inbound logs entirely.  What happened to these emails?  Are they lost?  Also all of our Outbound messages are showing an error state saying ERROR: Message is not accepted by the Internet delivery queue.  Will these emails need to be resent by all of our users or will Reflexion process these once the delays have been resolved?

We definitely will be switching all of our clients to MIMECAST.  More reliable than Reflexion for sure.