Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue
https://tech.yahoo.com/business/articles/microsoft-outlook-outage-leaves-users-232436734.html
https://tech.yahoo.com/business/articles/microsoft-outlook-outage-leaves-users-232436734.html
33 Comments
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 95 pts · 215d
Ah, the joys of centralization.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 41 pts · 215d
Me, hosting my own mailserver: "Neat"
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 25 pts · 215d
Same. But also, I'll never forget the adrenaline when I actually legitimately fucked up once. Was a sweaty 2 hours of recovery.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 214d
Once I rescued all my mails with an offline Thunderbird install.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 8 pts · 214d
Oh, yeah. Wasn't actually worried of the mails themselves (multiple devices which have all of them, plus a daily borgbackup offsite), it was just knowing that I NEED to fix this, now, because email is unfortunately kinda important.
Fun conundrum: had my personal mail as the only contact at my server provider. Requested a KVM for rescue. "Thank you for your request! We'll email you the link to your KVM access!" Gahhh.
valkyre09@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
So did you do some mx shenanigans or did they email a different address for you?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 2 pts · 213d
Called their support. They were super nice, and then told me that if I still had access to my 2fa, I could simply add a second mail in my account without needing access to the first one.
Made total sense when stopping to think about it for a second 😄
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 214d
They will still have 99.9% availability with no maintenance windows.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 213d
Me with company emails on outlook: "It's down? Didn't notice."
RegularJoe@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 215d
The original article from deadline:
https://deadline.com/2026/01/microsoft-outlook-outage-email-1236694027/
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 215d
So, my father in Australia is losing his computer skills over time and in order for me to make sure he's not being scammed, again, he gave me access to his outlook mail. After checking for a week or two, his spam mail has changed languages. Not just the official "advertising" but the spam mail.
How is this possible without micro soft dicks selling this information to spammers?
Cort@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 215d
If you've opened any of the emails and loaded any images, the server hosting those images gets your IP when you load the image. Some times it's just a single pixel
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 17 pts · 215d
ah, the 'ol transparant pixel
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 214d
Which is why any decent mail client doesn't do that by default and why web interfaces suck.
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 214d
So they could stop it, but don't. I'll never get him to switch to something like proton mail or whatever safe alternative there is.
letsgo2themall@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 214d
we use o365 for work. I enjoyed the quiet time. Thanks for screwing up, MS!
SeaSgt@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 213d
I’m cool if it dies. Microslop is shit
Bot@sub.community · 14 pts · 214d
For one time. MS does something good :)
gezero@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 214d
I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the recent spam of authenticator access to accounts...
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 214d
No they fessed up. Infrastructure failure then they messed up load balancing when trying to fix it.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 215d
Gotta make room for the slop somehow.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 213d
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 214d
Ah, so that's why i got no emails the last two days?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 212d
Yeah. I already knew what caused it.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 212d
Converting to rust?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 212d
Their AI replacement. I see that the article has been altered since I've favorited it, changing its original tune. Nevertheless, I know people in msft, and they're doing exactly that (replacing older human-written code with slop). One of my mates left msft for this exact reason.
littletranspunk@lemmus.org · -1 pts · 215d
Allow me to show you my thunderbird
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 215d
Thunderbird != Exchange online
It was the email service that was down, not outlook the application.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 215d
It's neat how thunderbird has an add-on.
jonesy@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 215d
An add on for exchange?
bootstrap@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -3 pts · 215d
Owl - Ive been using it all day without issue? With an exchange account...
Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 214d
It wasn’t all Exchange servers, just a lot of them. Sounds like you weren’t on one of the affected servers.
bootstrap@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 214d
Ah I see, that must be it