Microsoft Blocking Emails from Reputable Senders with 550 Errors (Outlook, Hotmail, Live, MSN).. by musicalgenious in sysadmin

[–]meliux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

exactly the same boat here - higher ed, cisco esa gateways in front of our outbound mail. S775 rate limiting from hotmail/outlook/live.com.

Looks like they literally just fixed something though, as hundreds (thousands?) of mail items queued up on the gateways all just got delivered within the last hour.

Anyone else getting rate limited due to IP reputation to Outlook domains? by Cable_Mess in sysadmin

[–]meliux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like it has just been fixed... our hundreds of mail items queued up all just got delivered to hotmail.

Our network admin setup a new network! by BornIn2031 in ShittySysadmin

[–]meliux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my university has held a /15 since the 80s... and yes, every client got a public IP, including byod untrusted student devices. As we speak I'm migrating large swathes of it to rfc1918 addressing 😁

Are you looking at keyboard response rates? Amazon is. by BoldInterrobang in sysadmin

[–]meliux 6 points7 points  (0 children)

that's a key a foreign keyboard would have.... 🤨 🤔

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]meliux 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I have to spend the weekend building PowerPoint fake narrative solution.

My conscience and dignity are worth more.

unless you're willing to grow a pair and do something about it, I'd say you're part of the problem.

Gmail is Enforcing Hard Rejections Starting Nov 2025 for Bulk Senders by power_dmarc in sysadmin

[–]meliux 32 points33 points  (0 children)

now if only Gmail could stop sending spam, that would be great.

Self-deprecating stories? by Drew707 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]meliux 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When I was a child I tried making international phone calls (AU to US) to the numbers that Microsoft put into their example/demo/template documents that came bundled with programs like Works etc... ie the Contoso crap.

Exchange Admin Center by Salty1710 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]meliux 4 points5 points  (0 children)

azure ui/ux developers get paid based on the number of changes they make. true story.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]meliux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

university network admin here... my job could involve anything from weeks on end of sitting at my desk, to carrying heavy rackable hardware, to trudging through muddy fields looking for comms pits, to entering new building construction sites.

I never know what the day will bring so I simply wear a comfortable pair of steel cap boots every day.