{"id":9103,"date":"2026-10-30T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=9103"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:16:43","slug":"dont-use-outlook-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/dont-use-outlook-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t use outlook.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you use Microsoft&#8217;s email service (outlook.com \/ hotmail.com \/ etc) then you are likely missing out on important email as Outlook.com is rejecting emails. There are plenty of other services that do not reject these emails, including GMail, Yahoo, Zoho, mail.com, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outlook.com is falsely rejecting email with an invalid response. Outlook.com will claim your domain &#8220;does not pass DMARC verification and has a DMARC policy of reject&#8221;, which is not correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My domain is rejected with &#8220;550 5.7.509 Access denied&#8221; by only outlook.com. No other email domain responds with this rejection, including Google and Yahoo. Examination of the domain via multiple different test sites indicates my domain configuration for DMARC and DKIM is totally correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are at all concerned about privacy and security then you probably shouldn&#8217;t be using the major email service providers at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you use Microsoft&#8217;s email service (outlook.com \/ hotmail.com \/ etc) then you are likely missing out on important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9104,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9103\/revisions\/9104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}