Ah, the joys of centralization.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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Me, hosting my own mailserver: "Neat"
Same. But also, I'll never forget the adrenaline when I actually legitimately fucked up once. Was a sweaty 2 hours of recovery.
Once I rescued all my mails with an offline Thunderbird install.
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.
So did you do some mx shenanigans or did they email a different address for you?
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 😄
They will still have 99.9% availability with no maintenance windows.
Me with company emails on outlook: "It's down? Didn't notice."
The original article from deadline:
https://deadline.com/2026/01/microsoft-outlook-outage-email-1236694027/
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?
How is this possible without micro soft dicks selling this information to spammers?
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
ah, the 'ol transparant pixel
Which is why any decent mail client doesn't do that by default and why web interfaces suck.
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.
we use o365 for work. I enjoyed the quiet time. Thanks for screwing up, MS!
I’m cool if it dies. Microslop is shit
For one time. MS does something good :)
I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the recent spam of authenticator access to accounts...
No they fessed up. Infrastructure failure then they messed up load balancing when trying to fix it.
Gotta make room for the slop somehow.
Ah, so that's why i got no emails the last two days?
Microsoft had found...
Yeah. I already knew what caused it.
Converting to rust?
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.
Allow me to show you my thunderbird
Thunderbird != Exchange online
It was the email service that was down, not outlook the application.
It's neat how thunderbird has an add-on.
An add on for exchange?
Owl - Ive been using it all day without issue? With an exchange account...
It wasn’t all Exchange servers, just a lot of them. Sounds like you weren’t on one of the affected servers.
Ah I see, that must be it