diff --git a/app/Ninja/Mailers/Mailer.php b/app/Ninja/Mailers/Mailer.php
index c1b127c106..c38a2c8704 100644
--- a/app/Ninja/Mailers/Mailer.php
+++ b/app/Ninja/Mailers/Mailer.php
@@ -102,7 +102,15 @@ class Mailer
     private function handleFailure($exception)
     {
         if (isset($_ENV['POSTMARK_API_TOKEN']) && method_exists($exception, 'getResponse')) {
-            $response = $exception->getResponse()->getBody()->getContents();
+            $response = $exception->getResponse();
+
+            if (! $response) {
+                $error = trans('texts.postmark_error', ['link' => link_to('https://status.postmarkapp.com/')]);
+                Utils::logError($error);
+                return $error;
+            }
+
+            $response = $response->getBody()->getContents();
             $response = json_decode($response);
             $emailError = nl2br($response->Message);
         } else {
diff --git a/resources/lang/en/texts.php b/resources/lang/en/texts.php
index 91028c5fe0..f575503cb2 100644
--- a/resources/lang/en/texts.php
+++ b/resources/lang/en/texts.php
@@ -2227,7 +2227,8 @@ $LANG = array(
     'entity_state' => 'State',
     'payment_status_name' => 'Status',
     'client_created_at' => 'Date Created',
-    'json_import_help' => 'We recommend importing into an empty account.'
+    'json_import_help' => 'We recommend importing into an empty account.',
+    'postmark_error' => 'There was a problem sending the email through Postmark: :link',
 
 );