Outlook

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Outlook reports

Outlook is an email service. When Outlook is down, login may not be working, users can't send or receive messages, or they get general error messages such as server connection error.

Reports about problems with Outlook

Macgyver

At my university, we've had at least three help desk tickets yesterday where the New Outlook desktop app periodically reports "Access Denied" where the folders section typically appears.

Mary VanRoosenbeek

We hare having issues with email reception. Stopping work production in a serious way.

Tyson Koch

Extreme delays in message reception.

Jason Johnson

Partial access. Users report send and receive issues and in the same organization no send/receive issues.

Nick Barra

Can't load drafted messages, or upload attachments.

Darren O'Brien

Lost access to Teams, Now Outlook, One Drive as of 2:10pm today

Kathryn Millhorn

Tried sending messages last Thurs/Fri (7/9-10) without issue or bounce-back on my end but the recipients say they're not arriving. Messages they've sent me arrive just fine.

Lowry Pierce

7-10-2026 1:46 pm Won't open. Sucks.

Bella

New emails won't be received until after a refresh or restart of app.

Claudia Diane Stegall

Wont open.

Kimi

Outlook web site acting funky. Logged in and can see older messages, but new ones won't load.

SLBrad

Logged in but the website does nothing - will not show nor manage email. Started about 45 minutes ago.

disqus_AeG05Mar25

It needs more coffee ig

mochibun

is anyone email still not working cause mine isnt loading completely ;-;

Mark

My users are unable to open any shared folders at this time.

CS Notwen

I'm getting "403 Forbidden" when trying to log in.

ALEXANDER LOZANO

Outlook web is not opening the emails or displaying the images or file attachments

TMP

I will try to remember to keep posting this solution because it is the only thing that does work. Microsoft issued an update to the extension host some time in May that breaks the application for many of it's users globally. With any luck this info will make it back to Microsoft and they will issue a retracted or corrected app.

TMP

Outlook has an issue with the extensions host that causes it to stop responding. Emails cannot be opened, read, attachments opened or read, and the app won't even close. The only way to fix this is to Alt-Ctrl-Delete and open the Outlook thread, highlight the Microsoft Outlook Extensions Host and end the task. Then it works as expected. This has been going on for at least a couple of weeks that I am aware of, and it has been reported by others but for some reason DownDetector doesn't report it as having a problem. Good luck!

Erik Mathews

Well then you don't have anyone to email. Problem solved.

srobak

ok - well if someone is just going to delete my notifications from MS I will just stop posting them. Too bad - this recent one was going to be some potentially good news.

srobak

Tell your subords to go home for the day. Supervisors go down with the ship.

Eli Deblinger

What if I'm the supervisor?

Erik Mathews

If outlook is down for you have you been approved by your supervisor to go home for the day.

srobak

DT can only aggregate what is reported to them by users.

srobak

Notif from MS: "We're reviewing additional reports from customer in the North America and Germany regions to further our understanding of the current impact scenario, to isolate error messages affected users are receiving, and to determine our next troubleshooting steps. Next update by: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at 1:30 PM CDT"

Horatio

outlook not working

Omar Alaa

Outlook has no problems, you're just not ok.

Jiyuan Zheng

Outlook is down again for me. It has been very unstable over the past week.

Ramon E. Abreu

outlook have insues in my pc ,Iwant to put out to outlook for bad programs trash .

Inotropic

Scrolling an email up and down gets stuck, then skips to the next email. Sending an email to a folder sends the next inbox email to the folder instead. On iPhone 14.

Ace

it's been 2-3 months now of not being able to log in, and this site keeps claiming there's "No reported outages"

Anon

Can't play Forza bc of this sh*t. Thanks Microslop

Stephen Milner

Once again, unable to log in to my account, and another verification method isn't working. This is happening too often, and it states that there are no problems with Outlook.

Kevin S

Can’t sign in with password or phone code again….

MBarry

Outlook users are also not receiving AOL and Yahoo emails since Friday, 5.15.26

Chummly

I've checked with others who have Outlook accounts and they are not receiving Gmail messages either.

Chummly

Not receiving emails from Gmail accounts, either through the website or in the Mail app on my iPhone. Pffwt. This service has nothing but problems.

Maeby

External emails are significantly delayed and not appearing in my inbox until hours or days later, if they aren't bounced back first. What is going on???

LeYang

I have not been getting emails send to me, I did a test message reply though and it took nine minutes to reply to that email. That's said if its a email externally coming in, it ain't working.

MBarry

Emails sent from my AOL account to Outlook users (some, not all) have been returning as UNDELIVERABLE since Friday, 5/15. I contacted both, AOL and OUTLOOK, but both companies claim it is the fault of the other. I kindly ask that both companies work towards a resulution to the problem. I rely on quick and accurate communication. Thank you.

Ace

can't long in in over a month. Why is DT lying about there not being any problems?

Amy

I have not been receiving all emails now for 3 days. None from aol, some from yahoo (it's hit and miss) and several others. Is anyone working on this???

MBarry

I am in the NJ/NY area and my emails sent to Outlook users (from my Yahoo and AOL e-nail accounts) have been returning since Friday, 5)18. Is there an acknowledgement by Outlook of a problem

David Reaves

Unable to receive email from some other systems. Yahoo times out, Gmail sometime delivers hours later. It's been two days now.

Larry Schoenberg

I am having the same issue. I am in Los Angeles. Is this a local issue?

Larry Schoenberg

My wife, who uses Outlook e-mail is having the same issues. Started yesterday too. She does not receive emails that I forward to her,

Sallie Foster

I am not receiving email from some people responding to email from me. Seems to be intermitent. It started yesterday (May 15) and continues today.

Trevor Workman

Apparently I have not been receiving many emails from my contacts, or they are extremely delayed. It started around the same time period many other users have reported. Something has to be wrong. I tried checking storage, settings, nothing seems off. I can send emails out, but not getting them is a major problem. Have contacted support, but have not heard back.

Stephen Milner

Unable to log in again

MBarry

I have tried sending emails from my AOL and YAHOOO emails to an Outlook user, but they keep returning to me as: Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address. <xxxxx(,hidden for privacy)@outlook.com>: Unable to deliver message after multiple retries, giving up.

Mary Redaelli

not receiving emails out of any of our microsoft365 email addresses...

Andy

Likewise ... still unable to receive personal yahoo/gmail messages in Outlook. Initially reported yesterday.

Marc Andrews

I still cannot receive personal emails from yahoo or gmail using Outlook. This has been going on for over 24 hours.

ΩptimumTechnologies2711

"Updating..." and continuous reception of duplicate mail, but it's likely due to D2L Brightspace.

Marc Andrews

Have not been able to receive any personal emails since early this morning.

Andy

Not receiving Yahoo emails

Casey Matteson McCracken

not sending and receiving emails this morning .

Lisa Hepler

Having trouble outside of Pittsburgh PA, Outlook email not logging in

GayJay

You have sent me this email 14 times over the last 2 hours ("Understand Your Influence in AI Answers"). Your AI must be on the fritz; please stop.

Darryl Smyers

Issue in Dallas, Texas right now

Jaime Yáñez

Tal como señala un usuario previamente en este chat, el problema parece ser COPILOT, y no funciona lo típico de finalizar y restablecer. Lo único que me funcionó fue finalizar, después desinstalar y finalmente instalar nuevamente. Cabe mencionar que antes de todo esto traté de entrar a Copilot y no funcionaba, estaba "pegado" en una ventana que decía que Copilot necesitaba unas actualizaciones. Suerte, y comenten si les sirvió el dato.

randquistaj

Having an issue in just Outlook in USA

Cristóbal Cea Farías

Down

Fernando Ossa

Chile too

KaijuTaro

Outlook and other MS services are down in Perú

NotTodaySatan

Outlook has a bigger problem than that. For two weeks now the biggest tech giant in the sphere has locked millions of uses out of their outlook accounts, with zero fixes or support. Two WEEKS. And NOTHING. And now they’re trying to say there’s no issue at all and gaslight us all to oblivion

KNO

2 weeks on and still not working. Marked as operational on their status website which is obviously not the case

Lee Hall

What is going on? I’m not able to get any mail like before. I’ve tried everything at this point and nothing works. Having to log in using safari defeats the whole purpose of the iphone.

Jagarciavi

can't log in

TMP

I spoke a little too soon... if you click on Calendar it will reactivate the Outlook Extension task which re-introduces the problem. You have to go into Task Manager to end the task (Ctrl-Alt-Del). After that you can switch between the applications. However, when the reader pane is active on the right side of the screen it cannot be resized. But you can switch between right view and bottom view. Hope that helps.

TMP

I found the solution for Outlook not working... It is the CoPilot extension. In Outlook, go to Settings -> CoPilot and toggle it OFF. Then Outlook will work, although Help still does not activate but the rest of the basic functionality appears to work. Note that I was having the problem on my PC where outlook would not respond at all to anything, while I was still able forward emails on my phone, so I sent the ones I needed to GMAIL from my phone so I could continue to interact on important items. Less than ideal but it was a workaround. I hope this helps.

TMP

Outlook continues to lock up and not work at all. I have to use Control-Alt-Delete, Task Manager, go to Outlook and expand it, and End Task on the Extensions task then it will work. This appears to be related to the unwanted CoPilot extension that I never asked for and do not want. It gets in the way of the work I am doing and I would like to disable it or get rid of it entirely. Does anyone know how to do that?

Kay Turner Waggoner

My Microsoft Outlook won't send or receive

Kay Turner Waggoner

My outlook is NOT working. Giving me send/receive errors.

KNO

Outlook posted on their status website today that this is fully resolved and no more updates will be provided. Obviously not the case as we still can’t get in

KNO

Mine keep getting deleted too

NotTodaySatan

My comments keep immediately being marked as SPAM and removed, and it’s really feeling intentional. They don’t want it being reported that the biggest tech firm on the planet has left MILLIONS of users absolutely stranded and locked out of their accounts for over a week and counting. With no support or resolutions whatsoever. I think this was a hack and they’re incapable of fixing it. And won’t admit it for 60 days or whatever the rules about that are. Complete BS

Bella Bauer

Yeah my issue wan't logging in - it was sending emails. Appears to be fixed now for me, but lots of others are experiencing varying issues, some of which still aren't fixed lol.

KNO

Are you back into your account?

Bella Bauer

Yup. Mine still wont send any emails until hours later - sometimes it works, sometimes not. Ugh

tijerazo

i am forced to use this cr*p tool event the gmail google .. that always work

Arkansasmom

A group calendar quit working!

KNO

Yep. Also I just sent myself an email and it now says my mailbox is full and can't receive anymore emails. So either way I will be losing and missing out emails permanently

Bella Bauer

This is ridiculous. Nothing is working nowadays.

KNO

Same

Bella Bauer

STILL NOT WORKING.

Mark Fetcher

BCC won't populate.

KNO

Nothing from CNN yet

David

Still having issue ! What the hell Microsoft!

TMP

Outlook has a problem... suddenly I can't search for anything. I was using my email when I tried to open an attached PDF and it just hung. I rebooted my system 4 times and still it won't display focused messages in the side panel and it won't even activate the search box (can't type in it) although other commands appear to be activated when cursor is on them. Totally hosed and unusable. And I really needed some email information for an appointment I am going to in a few minutes. It appears the AI feature is activated even though I don't want the add-in, but Help was not responding. Even the display looks weird now, without all of the normal menu features. And for some reason I click on Comment on DownDetector and it does nothing, even after having logged in. What's up today?

danaterrypettigrew

Outlook Classic is STILL freezing once or twice per hour every day for the past 3 weeks. Stop saying there are no issues detected when there are clearly outages being reported on your map.

KNO

I texted CNN a few hours ago, no response yet

Beth P.

I just text message CNN. If I receive a return text message, I will advise. Thanks for the tip!

NotTodaySatan

See my message below. Text CNN. Microsoft has not fixed this and the biggest tech giant in the world locking millions of users out of their accounts with no support options and no fix is international news and needs to be reported on. They need to explain themselves and be held accountable for this.

NotTodaySatan

Because they don’t support MSFTs lie that all is well and everything is fixed. Because literally why else?

KNO

My comments keep being deleted too. I'm going to text this number right now

Beth P.

STILL NOT WORKING!! MICROSOFT SUCKS!!😡😠🤬

Shelton

l can't receive messages

NotTodaySatan

My comments keep being marked as spam and removed immediately and I’m about to scream. This issue has not been fixed. It’s been a week now and still no access or support or fixes. Yall text CNN about this. This is an international story and no one is covering it. Their text tip line is 772937. Start your text with CNN, then a space, then briefly tell them Outlook has been down over a week with no fixes or support. We need to be flooding them with this. They’re already claiming there is no issue while millions of us can proclaim that that is a lie. If there’s media pressure put on them then they might actually do something. This is not ok.

Bella Bauer

Outlook? More like Outage

Bella Bauer

I can't send any emails! This really sucks. Not sure what to do considering I need to send important business emails.

NotTodaySatan

So a week without access and no support isn’t your line? Everyone should switch to Protonmail or something similar. Enough of these oligarch monopolies like Google and Microsoft.

NotTodaySatan

They’re gaslighting us. It’s been a WEEK with zero access and zero support. Nothing is fixed and they don’t care

David

If it’s still not fixed within next couple days , I am going to switch to Gmail

Mark Brown

Still not fixed 🤦‍♂️

KNO

I filled out the reinstatement form and that was the response I got. I’m in the same boat. Can’t change my email for so many of my accounts

David

My outlook email restored to normal for past 2 days, now it's having same error message again (you have tried too many times ...). Is any of you experiencing the same issue right now? This is driving me crazy. Why Microsoft website showing the outage has been fixed which is not?

Beth P.

NOT FIXED YET! Microsoft, you have a whole bunch of unhappy customers! Google, Yahoo, etc., are looking very appealing! Get your act together and fix the issues!!🤬

NotTodaySatan

They’re trying to gaslight and say “It’s fixed!” when it’s been 5 days with nothing fixed. People need to keep actually reporting their issues and not just commenting. That’s why it’s saying “No outages” We’re all STILL down, but people aren’t actively reporting it anymore

NotTodaySatan

Definitely didn’t work. Did the same failed login loop nonsense that’s had me locked out for 5 days now

Kevin S

Ok I stand corrected. This fix seems to not work for everyone.

Kevin S

I could only sign in after selecting Exchange…then I could verify

Kevin S

I know this has been posted before. I was only able to get in on phone by going to apps/ mail/ add account/ choose from list/select Exchange/ enter info. This happened a year ago on iMac and this week on phone. Selecting Exchange is not on MS fixes. After I did that I varied with my password. Password ONLY worked after I added the account as Exchange in phone app. When I selected Outlook from options I still got too many sign ins etc

Denise Cappadona Jackson

How would we know that we did or not? I have had my email address for over 16 years at least. I am trying to save myself a headache from changing my email to another email address for every single app I use it to log into

Denise Cappadona Jackson

I have been wondering if it's because of some nefarious reason. Makes me think it's dumping out email addresses and/or emails into a huge underground database system. I wish if they're trying to steal our crap 💩, they would do it between the hours of 1 AM TO 7 AM. At least that's when normal thieving happens...

Denise Cappadona Jackson

It has been 3 WEEKS!!!! I have tried all kinds of things. It wasn't working in my email app on my iPhone. I downloaded the Outlook App and it’s not showing any messages. How can someone even begin to change their email addresses for other services if some services are trying to send a message to my email to verify that I am who I say I am!! Fix this beach (you know what I mean with this word).

JP in Cali

Still an issue with IPhone and hotmail/outlook

Beth P.

"User Reports Show No Current Problems with Microsoft Outlook" is B.S.! I am still having login issues! Unacceptable, Microsoft!!!🤬

Beth P.

May 2, 2026. PROBLEM NOT FIXED!!!😠

NotTodaySatan

I would fully lose my mind. Has that happened to you?

NotTodaySatan

FIVE DAYS and no access. WTF MSFT We’re all getting free extra TBs of storage for this unmitigated disaster RIGHT?

needtimetothink

May 1 2026 - "Outlook is syncronizing local changes made to items in this folder. You cannot remove this folder until the syncronization with the server is complete." It's unclear what started this. Possibly trying to delete a lot of files because Microsoft is force dumping all kinds of things from our phones into one drive storage quickly using up these online storage spaces somewhat against our will. Ideally we download our photos to a hard drive, not the cloud. This should be the norm. PUtting all our personal photos in the cloud is sheer stupidity.

KNO

Anyone else had their email permanently suspended because of this?

Zocra NationStates

Here we go again...

KNO

Still not working 5 days later

Kevin S

It is fixed

David

Multi-trillion dollar company by the way. Multiple days and this issue still isn't fixed.

Kevin S

I’ve been up and running almost the whole time go Exchange and it will be fine

Brandon Bell

I’ve now been able to confirm that I’m missing messages from my inbox. This is completely unacceptable.

Jamie

It’s utterly ridiculous. I’m better off winning the lottery than trying to talk to a live person about my situation with them. It’s beyond the multi factor authentication.

Kevin S

I don’t know about work networks or androids I had to delete my account and add it as Exchange from the “choose from the list”. It’s been good ever since but selecting outlook instead of Exchange when I readded account did not work. MS is missing a step in their fix

David

It is absolutely unacceptable for no fixing this issue fast enough especially for a multi millions company . Also there is no live support available. Outrageous!

Beth P.

Your sentiments echo those of mine, Jamie. This is outrageous!

Jamie

I am beyond livid with this situation. at this point, it is costing me money. I have tried contacting support multiple times only to be redirected and have tickets opened and closed. If I did not have to use for work, I would completely boycott

JP in Cali

OK on laptop but stuck in too many sign ins with iphone. I deleted the app and can't get back in bc too many sign in message even after one sign in attempt. Going to give it a week at least and then try my phone again. I'm glad my laptop email works and I have yahoo as a backup for my phone needs but this is unacceptable to take this long for a fix. Who is running the show up there???

Beth P.

Problems logging in AGAIN! Fix the problem, Microsoft! This is unacceptable!😠

NotTodaySatan

75 HOURS and counting now. The rage is raging

NotTodaySatan

I’m migrating everything to Gmail the second this nightmare is over. To be hard down this long with zero support options is unacceptable

Arkansasmom

I use the old client for email, but web for calendar. The web has crashed!

Harleen

My notes aren't loading whatsoever. Using the website

David

My hotmail account is finally restored to normal !

Mr_Casual2020

I was able to login to my hotmail with iOS yesterday (4-29-26) using the manual setup and choosing Microsoft Exchange rather than the Outlook option.

FairLib

Funny if I go to Outlook's site I can sign in fine, but if I go via my M365 Account site... I get a 401 error message.

David

I am actually considering using Gmail in the future . This outage has caused huge inconvenience for my work. Totally unacceptable ! Outraged!

Tomy Power

Yes fixed yet, folks! Still having login issues!

Tomy Power

yesx relreally sure

David

I am still getting errors when sign in to my hotmail account . Still says “ you have tried too many times etc “ . Are you guys able to sign it successfully now ?

Drauka Grissa

The app has been a yo-yo for me the last week or two. I have to force stop it before it works. desktop and web work fine.

Kevin S

Definitely I was just trying to help as well

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