Re:Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choic...
by pbhjpbhj on Friday December 24, 2021 @06:12PM
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Microsoft's email behaviour seems like anticompetitive abuse - you can whitelist an address and they overrule you and block incoming email for obscured reasons.
Customers still have problems occasionally _sending_ email to one domain, which is over 15 years old and sends <1 email per day. If they initiate and email us we can't send them a reply (if they're on MS email, sometimes). We use an outlook.com email nowadays as a relay and have to treat MS using customers differently still despite using a relatively large supplier.
Some years ago, I was lead to believe, you could pay a third-party to add you to what was effectively MS's whitelist.
Aside: back then I was doing some webdev and supporting IE5+ so I already hated MS about as much as one could.
Never paying to enable interoperability that is part of being a reasonable web citizen/company. Paying them just reinforces the negative behaviour.
Customers still have problems occasionally _sending_ email to one domain, which is over 15 years old and sends <1 email per day. If they initiate and email us we can't send them a reply (if they're on MS email, sometimes). We use an outlook.com email nowadays as a relay and have to treat MS using customers differently still despite using a relatively large supplier.
Some years ago, I was lead to believe, you could pay a third-party to add you to what was effectively MS's whitelist.
Aside: back then I was doing some webdev and supporting IE5+ so I already hated MS about as much as one could.
Never paying to enable interoperability that is part of being a reasonable web citizen/company. Paying them just reinforces the negative behaviour.