Blog post about MS issue

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+title: 'Microsoft hostility'
+media_order: power.jpg
+published: true
+date: '23-10-2020 12:00'
+taxonomy:
+    category:
+        - news
+    tag:
+        - disroot
+        - microsoft
+        - email
+        - news
+body_classes: 'single single-post'
+---
+
+As some of you might have noticed, Microsoft (owner of Yahoo!, Outlook, live.com, Office360, etc.) is rejecting all emails originating from Disroot.org servers. Once reported to us, we immediately contacted support at Outlook as it was not the first time we have been targeted by MS (last year for no reason, all emails from Disroot were marked as spam) .
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+After waiting for a reply for a few days, making sure we are compliant with 'their policies' and exchanging few pointless emails with the Microsoft's support staff, we have gotten this final reply:
+
+> Hello,
+> As previously stated, your IP (178.21.23.139) do not qualify for mitigation at this time. I do apologize, but I am unable to provide any details about this situation since we do not have the liberty to discuss the nature of the block.
+> At this point, I would suggest that you review and comply with Outlook.com's technical standards. This information can be found at https://postmaster.live.com/pm/postmaster.aspx.
+>  We regret that we are unable to provide any additional information or assistance at this time.
+>  Best regards"
+
+This means as much as *"You are blocked, we won't tell you why, and all you can do is wait for us to decide otherwise and allow your emails to arrive"*. Good old Microsoft hostility.
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+We decided we won't just sit and wait for Goliath to have mercy. If they do not listen to us, perhaps they will listen to their own users. This is why as of writting this post, **we are blocking all emails from outlook.com, live.com, yahoo.com with reject reason pointing to this blog post**. Perhaps if their users start asking questions, Microsoft will finally review the reasons they have blocked us for - and maybe be so kind to explain it to us - or simply unblock. So **contact MS!** Searching the web for possible reasons we have learned that it is very common to be banned by MS without any reason for extended periods of time.
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+**We are sorry** if your emails are not reaching your contcts at Yahoo or Outlook, and we would like to send our appologies to users on the other side that can't reach Disrooters, but we feel like this is the only way we can generate some preasure on Microsoft to cooperate with us and fix the issue instead of blindly reject all traffic. **Please repost and share so we can together get MS's attention and undo this block.**