Microsoft has found what caused an outage that crippled its services like Outlook and Teams. Thousands of users swarmed to social media to find out what was happening with their e-mails during the middle of the business day. It turns out that Microsoft was experiencing an outage with Microsoft 365 services, with more than 11,000 …
Me, hosting my own mailserver: “Neat”
Me with company emails on outlook: “It’s down? Didn’t notice.”
Same. But also, I’ll never forget the adrenaline when I actually legitimately fucked up once. Was a sweaty 2 hours of recovery.
Once I rescued all my mails with an offline Thunderbird install.
Oh, yeah. Wasn’t actually worried of the mails themselves (multiple devices which have all of them, plus a daily borgbackup offsite), it was just knowing that I NEED to fix this, now, because email is unfortunately kinda important.
Fun conundrum: had my personal mail as the only contact at my server provider. Requested a KVM for rescue. “Thank you for your request! We’ll email you the link to your KVM access!” Gahhh.
So did you do some mx shenanigans or did they email a different address for you?
Called their support. They were super nice, and then told me that if I still had access to my 2fa, I could simply add a second mail in my account without needing access to the first one.
Made total sense when stopping to think about it for a second 😄
They will still have 99.9% availability with no maintenance windows.