Sending, receiving, and organizing email in Outlook.com
For Outlook.com or Live mail, check these items in order:
- In Outlook.com, open Settings > Mail > Junk email.
- Make sure the Gmail sender addresses or the
gmail.comdomain are not in Blocked senders and domains. - Add the sender address or
gmail.comto Safe senders and domains. - In Outlook.com, messages from safe senders and domains should not be moved to Junk.
- Make sure the Gmail sender addresses or the
- Check mailbox 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.
- Check the account state.
- If the password was changed recently, update it.
- The account can also be temporarily blocked because of unusual sign-in activity.
- If sign-in is affected, use the Microsoft account sign-in helper.
- If the issue is only with this specific mailbox, also check Rules and Forwarding for anything that moves, deletes, or forwards Gmail messages.
- If Outlook.com support links do not open, sign in to Outlook.com first, then select the ? at the top of the Outlook.com window to open Help.
- If Gmail messages are still not arriving after the checks above, the problem can be on the sender side.
- Microsoft may reject incoming mail when the sender’s domain fails authentication checks such as SPF.
- In that case, the sender must correct their mail configuration.
References:
- Filter junk email and spam in Outlook | Microsoft Support
- Can't send or receive email in Outlook.com | Microsoft Support
- Fixes or workarounds for recent issues on Outlook.com | Microsoft Support
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