Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho...
by ofcrpls on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:37PM
(#50416923)
I have the opposite problem. I have a 3-letter email address, so for ease of giving out the email address, I use it, while having it forwarded to my Gmail. Somewhere around 2019, emails from legitimate services, especially password reset/OTP codes, stopped landing in my inbox or even junk because my address is so high up the chain of spammers. Nebula was the first to confirm this for me and work out of band to re-enable access to my account - their emails to me were bouncing. But ever since that happened, I’ve slowly moved back to giving my Gmail.
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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho...
by NooneAtAll5 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:48PM
(#50417059)
huh
maybe someone was too lazy to set up "inbound block list" and just did a total blackout instead?
Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho...
by cowlevel on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:46AM
(#50421526)
It sounds like Gmail is seeing 3000 emails a day coming from [email protected], some of which are different kinds of spam, and reasonably concludes they are a spammer.
Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho...
by xmddmx on Sunday November 08, 2026 @03:48PM
(#50417062)
There's something called ARC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_Received_Chain which is supposed to handle forwarded emails, but no idea how it works in practice.
Sounds like kind of a hack:
"ARC was devised to solve this problem by giving intermediate servers a way to sign the original message's validation results. Even if the SPF and DKIM validation fail, the receiving service can choose to validate the ARC chain. If it indicates that the original message passed the SPF and DKIM checks, and the only modifications were made by intermediaries trusted by the receiving service, the receiving service may choose to accept the email."