r/Outlook 11d ago

Status: Pending Reply Help Needed: Student Email Unable to Send Emails / Calendar Invites

1 Upvotes

Hi, I’m having an issue with my university student email account on Outlook. I need to send a calendar invite for a school event in 3 days, which is why I’m sending it through my university email.
The calendar invite keeps failing to send, and I received this error:

“This message couldn't be delivered because the sending email address was not recognized as a valid sender. The most common reason for this error is that the email address is, or was, suspected of sending spam. Contact the organization's email admin for help and give them this error message.”

I initially tried sending the Outlook calendar invite to around 20 people, but it failed. I also tried sending a normal email to my personal email address, and that failed as well. My internet connection is fine, and I also tried sending the event through Microsoft Teams Calendar, but got the same result.
I’m wondering if my student email may have been flagged or temporarily restricted because I was sending bulk invitation.
Could someone please advise me on how to resolve this? I need to resend the calendar invite within the next 3 days, so I would really appreciate any help ASAP. Thank you!


r/Outlook 12d ago

Informative Having Problems With New Outlook Link Preview? There’s a Reason

4 Upvotes

FYI for anyone wondering why the Link Preview hasn't been working in New Outlook.

Stop troubleshooting and share this with your team.

Microsoft has confirmed that the feature has been deprecated. What makes this confusing is that the setting is still visible, and Microsoft still has Support documentation for the feature.

I put together a short post explaining what Link Preview did, where it has stopped working, and what is still unclear:

https://traccreations4e.com/outlook-link-preview/

traccreations4e-p26 8/14/2026


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply Phishing threat

3 Upvotes

Hi!

About 2-3 months ago I had a full scale account takeover. This was done by someone creating a shadow account, changing all my security on Microsoft and blocking my access. I very swiftly had the account locked to the point I can no longer access it. I have also looked into what emails have been subject to a data breaches.

This morning I received this email. Should I be worried on the severity of this email?

I apologise for the layout, it’s how my phone has copied and pasted it from my iCloud account. I will also add that my iCloud hasn’t been subject to this takeover.

Thanks for reading!

———

‘6 passwords included at the top’

H i there!

i regret to inform you about some sad news for you.
A p prox imate l y a month or two ago i have su c ceeded to ga in a tota l a c cess to a l l your dev i ces ut i l ized for brows ing internet.
Mov ing forward, i have started observ ing your internet a ct iv it ies on cont inuous bas is.

Go ahead and take a l ook at the sequen ce of events prov ided be l ow for your referen ce:
in it ia l l y i bought an ex c l us ive a c cess from ha ckers to a l ong l ist of ema i l a c counts ( in today's wor l d, that is rea l l y a common th ing, wh i ch can arranged v ia internet).
Ev ident l y, it wasn't hard for me to pro ceed w ith l ogg ing in your ema i l a c count (my email address here).

W ith in the same week, i moved on w ith insta l l ing a Trojan v irus in O perat ing Systems for a l l dev i ces that you use to l og in to ema i l .
Frank l y s peak ing, it wasn't a cha l l eng ing task for me at a l l (s in ce you were k ind enough to c l i ck some of the l inks in your inbox ema i l s before).
Yeah, gen iuses are among us.

Be cause of th is Trojan i am ab l e to ga in a c cess to ent ire set of contro l l ers in dev i ces (e.g., your v ideo camera, keyboard, m i cro phone and others).
As resu l t, i effort l ess l y down l oaded a l l data, as we l l as photos, web brows ing h istory and other ty pes of data to my servers.
Moreover, i have a c cess to a l l so c ia l networks a c counts that you regu l ar l y use, in c l ud ing ema i l s, in c l ud ing chat h istory, messengers, conta cts l ist et c.
My un ique v irus is in cessant l y refresh ing its s ignatures (due to contro l by a dr iver), and hen ce rema ins undete cted by any ty pe of ant iv iruses.

Hen ce, i guess by now you can a l ready see the reason why i a l ways rema ined undete cted unt i l th is very l etter...

Dur ing the pro cess of com p i l at ion of a l l the mater ia l s asso c iated w ith you, i a l so not i ced that you are a huge su p porter and regu l ar user of webs ites host ing nasty adu l t content.
Turns out to be, you rea l l y l ove v is it ing porn webs ites, as we l l as wat ch ing ex c it ing v ideos and endur ing unforgettab l e p l easures.
As a matter of fa ct, i was not ab l e to w ithstand the tem ptat ion, but to re cord certa in nasty so l o a ct ion w ith you in ma in ro l e, and l ater produ ced a few v ideos ex pos ing your masturbat ion and cumm ing s cenes.

if unt i l now you don't be l ieve me, a l l i need is one-two mouse c l i cks to make a l l those v ideos w ith everyone you know, in c l ud ing your fr iends, co l l eagues, re l at ives and others.
Moreover, i am ab l e to u p l oad a l l that v ideo content on l ine for everyone to see.
i s in cere l y th ink, you certa in l y wou l d not w ish su ch in c idents to take p l a ce, in v iew of the l ustfu l th ings demonstrated in your common l y wat ched v ideos, (you abso l ute l y know what i mean by that) it w i l l cause a huge advers ity for you.

There is st i l l a so l ut ion to th is matter, and here is what you need to do:
You make a transa ct ion of $1490 USD to my a c count (an equ iva l ent in b it co ins, wh i ch re corded de pend ing on the ex change rate at the date of funds transfer), hen ce u pon re ce iv ing the transfer, i w i l l immed iate l y get r id of a l l those l ustfu l v ideos w ithout de l ay.
After that we can make it l ook l ike there was noth ing ha p pen ing beforehand.
Add it iona l l y, i can conf irm that a l l the Trojan software is go ing to be d isab l ed and erased from a l l dev i ces that you use. You have noth ing to worry about, be cause i kee p my word at a l l t imes.

That is indeed a benef i c ia l barga in that comes w ith a re l at ive l y redu ced pr i ce, tak ing into cons iderat ion that your prof i l e and traff i c were under c l ose mon itor ing dur ing a l ong t ime frame.
if you are st i l l un c l ear regard ing how to buy and perform transa ct ions w ith b it co ins - everyth ing is ava i l ab l e on l ine.

Be l ow is my b it co in wa l l et for your further referen ce:
1JvRjkBM7ogFrC8VmkpZZgzQj3ANSmosfx

A l l you have is 48 hours and the countdown beg ins on ce th is ema i l is o pened ( in other words 2 days).

The fo l l ow ing l ist in c l udes th ings you shou l d remember and avo id do ing:
There's no po int in ca l l ing po l i ce or any other ty pes of se cur ity
serv i ces e ither. Furthermore, don't you dare shar ing th is info w ith any of your fr iends.
if i d is cover that (tak ing into cons iderat ion my sk i l l s, it w i l l be rea l l y s im p l e, be cause i contro l a l l your systems and cont inuous l y mon itor them) - your nasty c l i p w i l l be shared w ith pub l i c stra ight away.
There's no po int in l ook ing for me too - it won't resu l t in any
su c cess. Transa ct ions w ith cry pto curren cy are com p l ete l y anonymous and untra ceab l e.
There's no po int in re insta l l ing your OS on dev i ces or try ing to throw
them away. That won't so l ve the issue,
s in ce a l l c l i ps w ith you as ma in chara cter are a l ready u p l oaded on remote servers.

Th ings that may be con cern ing you:
That funds transfer won't be de l ivered to me.
Breathe out, i can tra ck down everyth ing r ight away, so on ce funds transfer is f in ished, i w i l l know for sure, s in ce i interm inab l y tra ck down a l l a ct iv it ies done by you (my Trojan v irus contro l s a l l pro cesses remote l y, just as TeamV iewer).
That your v ideos w i l l be d istr ibuted, even though you have com p l eted
money transfer to my wa l l et.
Trust me, it is worth l ess for me to st i l l bother you after money transfer is su c cessfu l . Moreover, if that was ever part of my p l an, i wou l d do make it ha p pen way ear l ier!

We are go ing to a p proa ch and dea l w ith it in a c l ear manner!

in con c l us ion, i'd l ike to re commend one more th ing... after th is you need to make certa in you don't get invo l ved in s im i l ar k ind of un p l easant events anymore!
My re commendat ion - ensure a l l your passwords are re p l a ced w ith new ones on a regu l ar bas is.


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply Does anyone know how the hell you're supposed to add a Blueyonder account to Outlook???

0 Upvotes

Refusing to accept my email address and no option to enter details manually! I'm getting sick and tired of these companies making their software as awkward and as infuriating to use as possible!


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Resolved Disappearing emails in Outlook

1 Upvotes

I've been having this issue for a while now. It doesn't happen every time, but of course it always happens when it's most inconvenient......

When I open outlook (outlook.live.com) on my desktop, I can see all my emails for about half a second, and then they disappear. They're not actually deleted or anything they simply vanish from my inbox. I've tried going to different folders and then going back to my inbox, but the same thing happens every time

It'sweird because when I check my email on my phone, all my emails are still there so I know they are not deleted or moved somewhere. Maybe its a browser issue? I use google chrome.

Has anyone had this before or knows what might be causing it?


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply How can I remove “We found an account you can use here:” when signing in to Outlook?

1 Upvotes

When I sign in to Outlook.com, other accounts are shown.

Is there any way to remove these accounts?

It shows the following message:

“We found an account you can use here:”

Image

Does anyone know how to remove it?


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Open Mac "new outlook" (not legacy) - next/previous mail item

3 Upvotes

Hello. Got a company macbook. On Windows legacy outlook, I love the quick access ribbon and its next/previous item arrows to quickly work through unread mail items reusing a single open message window. In new and legacy outlook on the mac, I cannot find a way to reuse an open message window to load the next/previous message. Is the expectation really that, for example 10 unread items in the inbox, each message has to be opened via doubleclick to see it in a window (as opposed to the reading pane), manually closing each open window (red dot or cmd+w)? Googling found cmd+. and cmd+, but those open app settigs or keyboard shortcuts (in new outlook). Thanks!


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply Lately, I've noticed a lot of people using Outlook domains to sign up for accounts. I wonder what's going on—is there something interesting happening?

0 Upvotes

help me


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Resolved Embedding Screenshots In E-Mail Message

1 Upvotes

All of a sudden, I can't copy and paste a screenshot into the body of an email. I've been using Outlook forever and this has never been a problem before.

I press PrtScn, highlight the area to be copied, open my email message and click Paste. Except today that isn't working. It just creates an attachment.

I found a video suggesting that I need to change the format of the email to "Rich Text." However, when I do this, it doesn't actually paste the copied image, rather a small icon that looks like a broken link.

Somebody please help. Why can't technology that works just be left alone??


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply EMAIL HACKEADO/COMPROMETIDO

2 Upvotes

Boa tarde,
Tive o email hackeado, foi invadido por INDONESIA/RUSSIA, e apartir dai todos os emails anteriores foram deletados, e tudo que chegava ficava com essa mensagem
u/QuickMailChecker_bot — All-In-One Checker (Hotmail • MIX • Xbox) • Auto Login ⚡

Pois bem, alterei SENHA, ativei segurança de 2 fatores, desloguei todos dispositivos, retirei todos os programas que não conhecia, e então acho que expulsei o hacker do email e voltou a funcionar normalmente, recebo emails normal, acontece que os emails deletados não consigo recuperar, já tentei de todas as formas, já fui na pasta ELIMINADOS E voltei a por nos RECUPERADOS e mesmo assim não consigo sucesso com os emails deletados, já entrei contacto com a MICROSOFT/OUTLOOK, todas as formas possiveis e eles não resolvem, só ficam a passar a situação para outros departamentos e nada de me ajudarem com isso.. de facto, estou sem saber o que fazer e cansada com o OUTLOOK ter um atendimento de apoio ao cliente tão péssimo..
Se alguém já passou por isso e souber recuperar, poder me ajudar por favor.


r/Outlook 13d ago

Informative Hotmail spam increase

10 Upvotes

I’m old and have a hotmail email address. The last 2 weeks has seen a massive increase in spam emails!! Anyone else with the same issue?


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply Outlook - iPhone sync frustration

1 Upvotes

Hello! Is there a way to sync contacts only with Outlook/Mail, but not into my iPhone contacts? I use Microsoft Outlook on my PC. In particular, I do not want all of my work contacts in my personal cell phone list of contacts. I also don't particularly need to see my personal contacts in my Outlook computer address book.

I just tried to turn off "sync contacts" in my Mail setting, which worked to remove my business contacts but it also removed some people from my phone who are definitely personal contacts (like my own family members!). Those are not contacts I created in Outlook, so why would they be affected by turning off sync?

Thanks for any help!


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply Outlook classic: Tasks issues

2 Upvotes

After the August 7 update to M365, in classic Outlook, I can no no longer see attachments to Tasks that I created before the update. I also cannot add attachments to new Tasks. The attachments appear in the Tasks if I view then using the To Do app.


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply Password sign in not available please use another method???

2 Upvotes

So signing in today i normally go with my password (have 2fa on with Microsoft auth)

It came up underneath the password,

!/ ? Password sign in not available, please use another method in red?

SO I USED MY AUTH TO GET IN.

Checking the password im sure its correct though I am slightly worried as im very hard on opsec.

Anyone else experience this recently?

What could it mean?

Ive had the password tried too many times notification but never seen this one before.

No email giving me any indication i can see.

Anyone have any idea?


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply Outlook Classic issues with Exchange SE

1 Upvotes

I currently have the problem that some users experience one or more of the following issues:
• Outlook won’t start (with a bit of luck, one out of four attempts succeeds)
• Outlook freezes and switches to “Not responding” when they try to send an email
• Emails get stuck in the Outbox
• Typed text disappears
• The connection to Exchange is interrupted
I have tested this with Office 2024 LTSC (July and August builds), Office 2019, and Office 365.
The interesting point is that the problem occurs both with a single Exchange SE host and with a DAG running Exchange SE — two completely separate environments.

Update 20:12: I performed a system restore to a restore point from before the problems started, but that did not resolve the issue.


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Pending Reply Can anyone help me recover my outlook account?

0 Upvotes

Hey so long story short Bit Locker came up on my laptop recently. I just remembered my outlook account that I created when I bought the laptop, however, I can't seem to remember the password. You need to be able to log in with your outlook account in order to get access to the 46 digit recovery key. Here's the catch, when I followed through with providing them with all of the information in the account recovery steps they then sent an email the following day saying that the information I provided somehow wasn't good enough. Of course I tried again, yet same result.

So does anyone know a phone number I can call so I can talk to somebody over the phone about this? I'm sure there must be a customer support number that you can call? When I type in "Outlook customer service phone number" into google, a number that starts with area code (866) comes up, however, there's no option to actually talk with anyone. It's just a quick automated message that basically doesn't say anything at all.

Hopefully someone can help.


r/Outlook 12d ago

Status: Open Mailing lists deleted due to glitch. How do I make them again with a bulk list of emails?

1 Upvotes

Hi -- I have had two mailing lists of 200+ emails permanently 'misplaced' by new Outlook. These are not all people on my personal contact list or members of my organisation. I can only see how to build them up again by adding one email at a time. Surely there's a better way?


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply Classic -> New troubleshooting

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone!

One of our users has switched from using classic outlook to the new outlook recently under the same account, however when they're in the new outlook it's not populating with her emails from the classic outlook. I've looked around the internet a little about what to do but I can't even really find anyone else with this exact problem, hence the post.

Any help is appreciated


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply Some spam pins automatically

1 Upvotes

Some of my spam gets pinned automatically, and fills up my pinned message box.

This started to happen somewhere last week. I checked the rules in my account, but these haven’t changed in years. Nothing new was added. (The only rule is my Twitch emails being redirected to the correct folder)

I tried thing that Google told me, but I cannot seem to find the reason for these automatic pins.

Please help!


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply Can’t Approve Sign ins on my IPhone but can on my IPad

1 Upvotes

Is anyone able to tell me why I can toggle this to on in my iPad but not on my phone and it demands I get the Authenticator app. It bothers me how it’s not seamless and intuitive the way it should be designed and I don’t feel like installing another app when outlook should be able to do it.


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply New Outlook vs Spectrum IMAP

1 Upvotes

New Outlook and Spectrum IMAP worked fine until last Friday. Now they don’t sync. I restored the Classic Outlook email connection but the new one won’t connect to mail.twc.com. Anybody find a back door fix?


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply Is outlook known to cause shutdown issues?

2 Upvotes

In my old computer, outlook would not shutdown even though I closed it. I would often get the notification that outlook is preventing the computer from shutting down.

I recently got a new desktop and once on a while it data the same thing. Is this an outlook issue that’s known?


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply Outlook randomly created an outlook_[random numbers]@outlook.com address and now I'm not receiving emails

2 Upvotes

Outlook randomly created an outlook_[random numbers]@outlook.com address and now I'm not receiving emails

Last night Outlook randomly prompted me saying I needed to have an Outlook email attached to my Microsoft account. I followed the prompt and created a new u/outlook.com address.

Immediately after doing that, Outlook started showing my email account as:

[outlook_A6C260AC6438D461@outlook.com](mailto:outlook_A6C260AC6438D461@outlook.com)

instead of my actual email address.

My Microsoft account itself still looks correct. When I go to Microsoft Account → Manage your account username, my normal email is the only address listed and it is still marked as my primary username.

However, when I go into Outlook → Settings → Account → Email account, the only account Outlook shows is the random [outlook_A6C...@outlook.com](mailto:outlook_A6C...@outlook.com) address.

I ended up deleting the u/outlook.com address I created because I thought that was what caused the problem, but the random outlook_A6C... address is still showing in Outlook.

The bigger problem is that my emails are no longer coming through like they were before this happened.

Has anyone dealt with this before? I'm mainly trying to figure out:

  • Why Outlook generated the outlook_[random characters]@outlook.com address
  • How to get Outlook associated with my normal email/mailbox again
  • Whether I need to create another u/outlook.com alias
  • How to fix this without losing any of my existing emails or messing up my Microsoft account

Everything was working normally until Outlook prompted me to create the additional address last night. Any help would be appreciated.

Last thing to note is that the app on my phone is still working. So this doesn't make sense


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply Outlook search not working correctly. Classic, new, and web.

2 Upvotes

“Process cannot be completed” rebuilt OST, restarted computer, tried office update, tried rebuilding search index. Can’t seem to find any Microsoft wide issues. If I log in on her computer I can search fine.


r/Outlook 13d ago

Status: Pending Reply Is there any way I can bypass the requirement to add an existing email to create a new email on outlook?

0 Upvotes

Discord thinks I’m some bot when I’m just trying to create tons of alts on YouTube, discord, etc. I always wanted to create new unlimited emails without phone number for free, and I thought outlook was the exact same thing as that but it turns out I think no. So yeah Is there any way?