Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by cromka on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:54PM
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Nice, so at least your messages sent to their SMTP servers will actually bounce instead of being silently dropped /s
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by OnceMoreUntoThe on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:01PM
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Nah, no way they're getting rid of their M.C.-Escher-esque 'Forefront' mail-disappearance-machine-that-nobody-in-Microsoft-seems-to-understand-or-control, but, yeah, even their Internet-facing infrastructure seems unhappy:
451 4.3.2 Temporary server error. Please try again later ATTR2 [MI3PEPF00008486.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com 2026-11-12Txxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by suzzer99 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:23PM
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Anything sent to my work or home Outlook email from gmail doesn't bounce back, and anything sent from those is still stuck in the outbox. Microsoft.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by mjmas on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:15PM
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It won't actually bounce until either gmail gives up on its retries (which generally is 24 hours) or the outlook server gives an explicit rejection (rather than a temporary error or timeout)
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by bawolff on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:54PM
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Normally if server down, smtp will wait a little while and try again.
Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page
by mjmas on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:13PM
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Yep.
421 4.3.2 The maximum number of concurrent connections per resource forest has exceeded a limit, closing transmission channel. xyzxyzxyz.outlook.com. PRX8 [Name=InboundProxyTrackingAgent][AGT=IPT][MxId=xyzxyzxyz] [xyzxyzxyz.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com 2026-11-13T01:08:15.373Z xyzxyzxyz]