Stricter requirements are coming on mass mailings to Microsoft hosted mailboxes including Outlook.com. The new rules also affect anyone with a Microsoft managed Inbox. Any organization (domain name) sending “over 5,000 emails daily” will have to comply with new rules from 5 May 2025. At the same time, Microsoft is
Emails you want to see might end up in Junk Email as Microsoft imposing new standards to ensure emails are legitimate. Microsoft isn’t allowing any way to bypass their new rules for emails you want. The new standards apply to senders but there are important and less well promoted effects
There’s about to be a big change in how you login to Outlook.com (Hotmail.com, live.com email and it’s best to get ready now. We explain which email apps are already setup OK, some apps might need a simple change while others have to be replaced. From 16 September 2024, Outlook.com
Outlook.com email attachments are counted as part of the OneDrive allowance. That means your OneDrive quota will be used up a little more quickly, but other consequences of this change haven’t been answered. From 1 February 2023 (), the space used to store Outlook.com email attachments will be counted against
Microsoft’s mail service Outlook.com might move Office Watch or Office for Mere Morals to Junk Email. Here’s how to stop it doing that for any email, The same advice applies to other newsletters and emails that are wrongly marked as Spam / Junk Email. The famous UK newsletter, Popbitch, is
There are unanswered questions about Microsoft’s ‘move’ of Outlook.com attachments to OneDrive storage. Microsoft is being quite ‘opaque’ about the details of the change. On 1 Feb 2023 the space used by attachments in an Outlook.com mailbox will be counted against the OneDrive space quota not the mailbox limit. That’s
For a limited time, you can setup your own personal email address with your own domain name, using Outlook.com. The personalized email address feature means that you can have your own email address, such as [email protected] or [email protected] using the Outlook.com system as your mailbox. This personal email feature of
Here’s how Outlook.com mailbox storage limits work now for both Microsoft 365 customers and ‘free’ users too. This is in advance of changes coming in February 2023. Outlook.com is Microsoft’s free email service, formerly known as Hotmail. It’s Microsoft’s rival to Google’s Gmail. When you sign-up for Outlook.com, you also
There’s a way to view the attachments to items in a Outlook.com mailbox either in the web browser or, the better option is Outlook desktop software (Windows or Mac). Finding attachments is useful for recovering a lost file or past version of a document. Also vital to reducing the mailbox
Microsoft hasn’t had a good week with their hosted email with two breakdowns of Exchange Online and Outlook.com services. One stopped emails in and out, the other prevented messages from being read. Both Exchange Online (Microsoft 365 hosted email) and Outlook.com run on the same or very similar systems. Usually
Over Easter there was a three day serious breakdown in Outlook.com for Australian users among many. The problems were first acknowledged by Microsoft about 1pm Sydney time on Saturday 11 April and continued for around three days! Mostly Aussies were affected with pockets of trouble in Europe and USA. A
