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A quick note regarding outlook.com service.

We completed the move of the outlook.com transport and filtering infrastructure 
to Exchange Online Protection (O365).  Over the past few weeks MX records for 
outlook.*, hotmail.*, msn.*, live.* etc were pointed to the new front-doors.
All RFC compliant senders moved accordingly, but some spammers and very few 
small random senders are still hitting the legacy infra.
This is probably due to using the mx[1:4].hotmail.com or static list of IPs for 
the old infrastructure.

We are at the very last stage where we are setting networking ACLs on the 
legacy infra to block internet email traffic.  Today we are at 5% ACLed and we 
want to go to 100% by end of next week.  MTAs misconfigured will retry and 
mostly deliver for the next few days, but after that senders still 
mis-configured will see mail not flowing.

Please review your sending configuration and perform proper MX resolution for 
Microsoft consumer domains asap.
If you still want to config a single domain for shaping all traffic towards us 
(PowerMTA kinda config), use the outlook.com MX resolution.  This is the 
largest forward looking domain and is  evenly distributed across all regions.

As opposed to the previous arrangement where all domains had MXes with 
mx[1:4].hotmail.com and pointing to NorthAmerican front-doors, we now have more 
granular allocation to regions (e.g. Hotmail.de points to EURope, 
Hotmail.com.jp o APAC frontdoors, etc) which should help end to end latencies 
for person to person.
It is not a great idea to target the regional wideIPs mentioned in some of the 
MXes directly as they might change in the coming years with all the new 
regulations (GDRP kind) that will likely force mail to go more locally.

All these changes are mailflow related and should not impact deliverability as 
all frontdoors run same code/config/global limits/etc.

Thank you,
Mihai Costea

Principal Program Manager
Office 365 Information Protection


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