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Intercom outage: Email Forwarding is experiencing difficulties

Intercom reported this major-impact incident on its official status page on Apr 8, 2026, 18:22 UTC. It was resolved after 13h 13m.

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Apr 8, 2026, 18:22 UTC
started
Apr 9, 2026, 07:35 UTC
resolved
13h 13m
duration
Major
impact
  1. resolvedApr 9, 2026, 07:35 UTC

    Between ~18.00 - ~23.00 UTC on the 8th April, a subset of customers experienced intermittent issues with email forwarding in the Intercom Inbox. During the incident Google has an incident open related to delivery issue that was impacting inbound support emails. The team continues to confirm root cause with an RCA to follow. This issue should now be resolved and all services are restored to normal functionality.

  2. investigatingApr 8, 2026, 19:17 UTC

    We are seeing a subset of customers intermittently affected by delays in email forwarding in the Intercom Inbox. Our team is actively investigating the issue. We’ll update you here as soon as we have more specific information.

  3. investigatingApr 8, 2026, 18:22 UTC

    We're seeing issues with Intercom related to Inbox and email forwarding specifically across all regions. Our team is aware and investigating the issue. We’ll update you here as soon as we have more specific information.

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