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Microsoft Confirms Outlook Issues (bbc.com)
Microsoft has confirmed that some users of its email service Outlook are unable to send email or access their accounts. From a report: Hundreds from around Europe have commented on the website Downdetector that they have been affected by the problem -- many since Monday morning. One common issue seems to be that sent emails remain in the drafts folder and are not being delivered to recipients. On its website, Microsoft says the service dropped "unexpectedly" and it is working on a fix. Not all account holders are affected. "Intermittent connectivity is affecting customers in some European countries, which we are working to resolve as soon as possible," said a Microsoft representative.
I was looking at delayed delivery of an email that went via outlook.com just yesterday. This was an old email: the problem happened in August, I think.
Looking at the headers, the email was first delivered to Microsoft's network and spent almost a day entirely within Microsoft's network.
After a day, came Microsoft's first attempt to deliver the email to my server, which resulted in a temporary failure (I use postgrey). It then took more than a day before Microsoft attempted delivery again.
Why anyone relies on Microsoft for infrastructure, I have no idea. While all cloud infrastructure providers have issues, Microsoft appears to have more.
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This happened to me today. I sent 3 e-mails, then, about 1/2 hour after sending the first one, I noticed they were all stuck in my outbox. When I clicked on "Send All" Outlook.exe froze. I had to ctrl-alt-del to stop Outlook, and when restarted, the e-mails in the Outbox had disappeared - not Sent, not in Drafts, and not in Outbox. So I'd say that Office.exe was having problems too, in that it couldn't recover from the cloudy problems.