> On Feb 20, 2026, at 09:43, Benoît Panizzon via mailop <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> So obviously outlook just send the three commands: ehlo, startls and quit but 
> never transmit the email.

I see this behavior on my server as well. I've contacted Microsoft about it but 
I haven't received a definitive answer as to why, leaving me to guess that this 
is part of their liveness/reachability probes.

> The sender is never getting a notification (issue persists for one week now) 
> about emails not being transmitted.

For me, these (imo) liveness probes are benign, and I can still send and 
receive email to Microsoft/Outlook inboxes.
-- 
Alex
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