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Strengthening Email Ecosystem: Outlook’s New Requirements for High‐Volume Senders
Microsoft has been experiencing issues for DKIM validation for years, and it appears these problems are causing even more issues now with the strengthened email ecosystem. Perhaps Microsoft should have resolved these technical challenges before introducing additional requirements. Below is a list of top email senders and their percentage of temperrors in the last 30 days from over 20k domains:
I have reported this issue to Microsoft multiple times, and in 2024 Puneeth acknowledged, "We are aware of the DNS issue and are actively working on several resolutions." Microsoft is clearly aware of the problem, but it seems they have not been able to resolve it.
freddieleeman Is there a way we can an official answer from the publishers of this article or someone from outlook.com on what are they doing with emails with temperror under this new rule?
- freddieleemanJul 17, 2025Brass Contributor
Not that I’m aware of. Microsoft doesn’t have the best track record with these things — something breaks, the community reports it, Microsoft eventually acknowledges it, and maybe it gets fixed months or even years later.