Delayed email to Microsoft
DegradedReported Feb 23, 2026 at 8:52 PM UTC
Affected Systems
We are seeing delayed outbound email to Microsoft (outlook, hotmail, etc). This appears to be a problem with their systems, though they are reporting it as this: "The mail server has been temporarily rate limited due to IP reputation." That said, no one works as hard as we do to combat outbound spam, and their complaint rates are very low. Our position, until we hear otherwise from them, is that this is an error in their system.
Updates
Second report came in, this is definitely not just us.
We've received 1 response indicating that we are not the only ones who started seeing this today.
We are seeing delayed outbound email to Microsoft (outlook, hotmail, etc). This appears to be a problem with their systems, though they are reporting it as this: "The mail server has been temporarily rate limited due to IP reputation." That said, no one works as hard as we do to combat outbound spam, and their complaint rates are very low. Our position, until we hear otherwise from them, is that this is an error in their system.