Sending, receiving, and organizing email in Outlook.com
For Outlook.com, this usually comes down to one of these causes:
- Check whether the messages are being filtered elsewhere:
- Check the Other tab.
- Check the Junk Email folder and Junk Email settings.
- Check whether messages are sorted oddly; restore chronological order with Filter > Sort > Date.
- Check whether email forwarding is enabled.
- Check whether any rules are moving or deleting the messages.
- Check account state:
- If the password was changed recently, update it.
- If there was unusual sign-in activity, the account may be temporarily blocked. Use the Outlook.com account unblock flow.
- If sign-in is failing, use the Microsoft account sign-in helper.
- Check storage:
- If Microsoft cloud storage is full, Outlook.com cannot send or receive email.
- Messages sent while storage was full are bounced back to the sender and are unrecoverable.
- If this is only happening with Southwest and Outlook.com is otherwise receiving mail:
- Ask Southwest to confirm whether they are getting a rejection or non-delivery report.
- If the sender is being rejected before the message reaches the mailbox, Safe Senders, rules, and blocked senders will not fix it.
- If Outlook.com on the web is behaving oddly while checking mail:
- Try Microsoft Edge or another browser.
- Disable or exclude Outlook.com from ad blockers such as AdBlock or uBlock, then refresh.
Since access to the account is also failing, start with account sign-in and unblock checks first, then verify storage, then recheck Junk/Other/rules/forwarding.
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