Hotmail/MS new spam filtering causing issues for ESP's

Posted by nickweb on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:35PM
from the status.mxroute.com dept.

https://status.mxroute.com/incident/3

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Re:Hotmail/MS new spam filtering causing issues for ESP's by Bender on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:39PM (#47156697)

A few suggestions [1] as a possible way to drain the queues very slowly, although obviously not a complete or ideal solution.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152730

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Re:Hotmail/MS new spam filtering causing issues for ESP's by nickweb on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:35PM (#47155707)

Microsoft's new spam filtering is affecting mail deliverability from a number of email service providers. MX Route is recommended here often enough that these issues may crop up for people here

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Re:Hotmail/MS new spam filtering causing issues for ESP's by johng on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:44PM (#47155860)

I send a lot of email through Sendgrid. It's been blocking them as well.... live.com, outlook.com -- and everything is set up properly but they are still blocking a lot of legitimate email.

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