Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours

Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by fuglede_ on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:56AM (#50480366)

Self-host your email.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by murphy1312 on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:13AM (#50480518)

That would be a good idea, until you realize that everyone you send emails to (in a business context) also uses MS 365.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by oddIdentities on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:48AM (#50480873)

So what?

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by smackeyacky on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:14AM (#50481157)

Good luck getting your self hosted email trusted by anybody.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by oddIdentities on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:49AM (#50482171)

It's trusted by everyone AFAICS - including outlook.com, if that's still a thing

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by mrngld on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:45AM (#50483404)

Self-hosted email is trusted? Not in my experience -- maybe I had bad luck and a small sample size but I quickly abandoned it after a few contacts I needed to be able to e-mail didn't get my email. And generally it didn't even go to their spam box -- it was filtered from even getting that far by their provider.

I was using a dedicated VPS, maybe that was part of the issue, maybe self-hosting from a residential IP might work better. But it was easier for me to let iCloud handle my domains email. It's been flawless ever since even though they're not really a big player in e-mail. Used Proton for a bit, that was (almost) flawless as well, though even Proton occasionally gets blocked by stricter corporate rules.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by oddIdentities on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:34PM (#50491697)

did you do all the things? DMARC and what have you? Super easy in LLM land but wasn't hard even before it.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by mike_hearn on Friday November 13, 2026 @08:04AM (#50482947)

Most emails in a typical org are internal.

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Re:Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours by Arbortheus on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:30AM (#50480697)

Big tech are trying to take this option away from us.

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