Resolved incident

Microsoft Mail Delivery Delays and Temporary Rejections

SparkPost · Minor · Started

Duration
23h 43m
Severity
Minor
Status
Resolved

Summary

Minor · Resolved

Microsoft has confirmed that they made additional changes the night of Thursday, Feb 26th that should have remediated most IP rate limiting and rejection issues. If you are still seeing impacts, please reach out via your normal support channels and our team can investigate and escalate with Microsoft.

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Event timeline

How this incident unfolded, from the official status page.

  1. Monitoring

    SparkPost

    We are currently seeing elevated temporary rejection rates for email delivered to Outlook.com, Hotmail, and other Microsoft-hosted addresses. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue and is actively investigating. This is a industry-wide issue and not isolated to any specific account. We will continue to monitor and update this page as we receive more information. Next update: When Microsoft posts a resolution or Bird observes delivery rates normalizing

  2. Resolved

    SparkPost

    Microsoft has confirmed that they made additional changes the night of Thursday, Feb 26th that should have remediated most IP rate limiting and rejection issues. If you are still seeing impacts, please reach out via your normal support channels and our team can investigate and escalate with Microsoft.