Ah, the joys of centralization.
Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue
Submitted 13 hours ago by Brkdncr@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://tech.yahoo.com/business/articles/microsoft-outlook-outage-leaves-users-232436734.html
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xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 13 hours ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Ah, that’s why i got no emails the last two days?
Samsy@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
Me, hosting my own mailserver: “Neat”
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 9 hours ago
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 3 hours ago
Once I rescued all my mails with an offline Thunderbird install.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They will still have 99.9% availability with no maintenance windows.
Bot@sub.community 4 hours ago
For one time. MS does something good :)
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
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 10 hours ago
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
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Which is why any decent mail client doesn’t do that by default and why web interfaces suck.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 9 hours ago
ah, the 'ol transparant pixel
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
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.
gezero@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I’m wondering if it has anything to do with the recent spam of authenticator access to accounts…
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No they fessed up. Infrastructure failure then they messed up load balancing when trying to fix it.
RegularJoe@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The original article from deadline:
littletranspunk@lemmus.org 12 hours ago
Allow me to show you my thunderbird
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Thunderbird != Exchange online
It was the email service that was down, not the software.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
It’s neat how thunderbird has an add-on.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Gotta make room for the slop somehow.
letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
we use o365 for work. I enjoyed the quiet time. Thanks for screwing up, MS!