Bizzare. My self hosted email, which everyone told me was stupid to host myself has been sending and receiving just fine.

Of course I haven't received a single email because every important email is sent via Microsoft but I still feel superior because I'm not affected

Just don’t tell us how many nines you have, hey?

I mean, I can't speak for him but I also run a small server and I think I just beat MS365 in nines because of this outage.

infinitely many, so far...

It is not difficult to keep a mail server online.

FreeBSD(ZFS+jails old but gold) + postfix + dovecot.

Ha nearly the same setup here, FreeBSD/ZFS/opensmtp/dovecot/rspamd

And yes uptime (with short outages(updates etc)) is not that important for a mail-server, since the sender re-transfers in intervals (mine is 5min the 8 then 15 then 60 then 180 then something up to 2days)

So the uptime for the service is 100% (maybe 99.999) over the last 8 years.

Mail servers are easy, getting the other mail servers (Microsoft,Gmail,etc) to play nice with yours is harder.

Not that hard, for example thats a good tester:

https://mail-tester.com/

and

https://mecsa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ (offline atm Azure??)

Getting a clean ip is hard. I have my personal email server setup and had to get it off of some black lists maintained by baracuda. Although i agree personal self hosted email is fairly straightforward and ideally more people should do it. Hetzner provides cheap and reliable vms.

>Hetzner provides cheap and reliable vms.

True, i have some hetzner (not vm's but metal), and Vultr (just vm's), i just had one bad IP until now (i just changed it instead of trying to get it removed from a blacklist)

Receiving is easy for personal mail I would say I receive 99% of the time.

Sending out is harder but that 1% when I send something I need it delivered.

Hosting e-mail for friends and family is harder and mostly what I would call stupid.

> Still ongoing, I haven't been able to access my personal outlook email for 12+ hours and as a result can't access my accounts that use email 2FA, including my virtual medical appointment!

I guess software is still not solved, I'll let Dario know

You mean a Microsoft 365 account?

Because "personal outlook" at https://outlook.live.com/mail has been working this whole time.

Because I know people here are devs but you guys dont know IT lmao

It might work for you in your region. It is down in my region for some time.

Interesting because it was down here in Sweden.

365 that is

Peronal outlook has been fine

This link is not loading up for me, and neither does outlook.office.com, it times out after a while.

its so funny, that service outages might help people get away from american hyperscalers.

Nothing will change. Nobody who is in a decisionmaking position will learn any lesson from this.

If you take a big corp down for a day then decision makers definitely notice.

I'd guess that almost every CEO affected asks themselves whether they should be so reliant on Microsoft.

Given that MSFT is down just 1.5% pre-market after what surely must be one of their biggest outages in the past decade, no one thinks much will come of this.

1.5% is basically random intra-day fluctuations.

Officially Microsoft 364