On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM Michael Wise via mailop <[email protected]>
wrote:

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> S3150 is what you get when you don't slow down after seeing 4xx. 😊
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If that were the case I would have SO many questions.  I'll get to those in
a minute, but first: that doesn't track with what I'm seeing.  I have
exactly two (2) 4xx SMTP errors from outlook.com mail servers in the last 5
days.

But let's assume you're right... here are my top two questions:

1. How would I be expected to know that, based on available information
(the SMTP error message and the documentation it points to)
2. What mail server software implements a variable outgoing rate limit
based on the recent rate of 4xx messages from a receiving mail server?

Surely if this is how things are intended to work, someone has thought
through how senders are expected to deal with the limit.
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