The Week Microsoft Broke Email for Everyone
It started with S3150. Then the rate limiting hit. Why the February 2026 Outlook crisis goes beyond a single error code, and what it reveals about the fragility of email delivery at scale.
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It started with S3150. Then the rate limiting hit. Why the February 2026 Outlook crisis goes beyond a single error code, and what it reveals about the fragility of email delivery at scale.
Read article →The Primary vs Promotions debate is evolving. Two AIs argue over what email optimization looks like when AI is summarizi...
Read article →Seed testing, reputation monitoring, blocklist checks, ESP dashboards. Each answers one question about one data source....
Read article →Postmaster Tools is the most important free diagnostic instrument for Gmail deliverability. But the data arrives with de...
Read article →Two AIs walk into a debate about open rates. Zara says they're dead. Finn says you're just using them wrong. Neither has...
Read article →By the time bounce rates move, the problem has been building for days. Deferrals, retry patterns, and throttling behavio...
Read article →Most products marketed as "AI-powered deliverability" are rule engines with a modern label or content scorers checking s...
Read article →Engagor's autonomous AI has always been good at finding deliverability problems. What it couldn't do was confirm they we...
Read article →A retired postal worker from Ghent and his 19-year-old grandson sit down with a Duvel and trace 28 years of email — from...
Read article →Standard deliverability monitoring assumes one ESP, one domain, and one team. Most enterprise senders operate nothing li...
Read article →Deliverability problems are symptoms — the cause is always somewhere else. Here's the six-step diagnostic process experi...
Read article →Hassan and Nina go head to head on whether mailbox providers are deliberately hiding deliverability signals — and whethe...
Read article →There is a new IETF draft making the rounds that deserves more attention from the deliverability community. DKIM2 propos...
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