Interesting. I just sent myself a test mail from and to an O365 account which included the URL of the article.<p>As the article claims, it doesn’t get delivered. Not even in the spam folder.<p>Other email between the same addresses goes through without problems.<p>EDIT: the Exchange admin center has the email quarantined with reason “malware”, discovered through “URL detonation reputation”.
Getting support for something like this at Microsoft is impossible. They don't care at all. They will reply with standard responses from some supporter without any access or knowledge of the inner working of the system.<p>I do understand the ideer of letting a large IT organisation handle you email. Working email is a high priority, if not Microsoft or Google can make it work, who can?<p>But as soon as there are any problems a little out of the ordinary, its clear that choosing something like Microsoft or Google is a really bad idear. It's not possible communicate with anyone who know anything.<p>As more and more are moving their solutions to Microsoft and Google, they will be in a position to strangle any smaller providers.<p>They are a thread to the free internet!
Assuming (as is most likely) that this is some kind of unintentional behavior of a spam filter, it really highlights the risk of depending on these few, huge centralized services for email.
I have an O365 account in one of Microsoft's Government clouds. I sent an email from my personal (privately run) email to my o365 account with only newclimate.org in the body of the message. The message was sent to Quarantine in the Gov cloud - where it shows as Malware. Microsoft shows "URL detonation reputation, Mixed analysis detection". Seems Microsoft thinks newclimate.org is hosting malware.<p>I sent a second message from my personal account to my O365 account, with just my company's URL in the body. This one was delivered right to the Inbox.
Yes outlook does some very poor spam filtering. Case in point, my food delivery email arrive hours later on Outlook, while the same arrive on gmail instantaneously.
This is going to be very interesting to see the mechanics of this, since Microsoft claims newclimate.org is not on any blacklist….yet an individual organization can appeal to Microsoft to have the url unblocked and apparently it makes it work, but only for their organization.<p>That seems on its face like an impossible contradiction to me.<p>Interesting to me that this also blocks sending the IPCC report even as an attachment.<p>This certainly seems oddly targeted, but I doubt that Microsoft is intentionally to blame. More likely their infrastructure is compromised and someone is selling blacklisting as as service lol.
Do you checked this? <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-disables-bad-spam-rule-flagging-all-sent-emails-as-junk/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-di...</a>
I have been of the personal opinion that email should be end to end encrypted. This would be another reason why. Think about how much personal information is easily exposed by non-encrypted email. It would be like having the 99.9% of the web sites still using http as opposed https.
I have seen more than one doctors office have an agreement that they want you to sign so that they can send one unencrypted email. (Most people don't pay much attention to the agreements that they sign and non-technical users likely don't know that their emails can easily be read by several parties.)
I don't understand why so many of the comments seem inclined to assume this is unintentional. Given the extreme sensitivity of the issue and the extreme amounts of money/power at risk / in play on all sides, it seems highly likely that this is intentional (although not necessarily official MS policy - it could of course also be internal bribery-fueled sabotage and/or a hack).
Not very subtle. I’m sure it will be chocked up to “a misfiring spam filter” but after John Stewart’s unceremonious firing from Apple for his truth seeking content plans one begins to wonder.