A Microsoft-side incident beginning around 08:00 UTC caused elevated email deferral rates for all M365 regions, with servers returning "451 4.7.500 Server busy" errors. Only M365 recipients were affected; all other email providers remained unimpacted. The incident lasted approximately 33 minutes and was fully resolved by 12:55 UTC.
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This incident has been resolved.
Starting around 08:00 UTC, Microsoft began experiencing an incident causing an increased volume of deferred emails across all M365 regions. The affected responses are returning "451 4.7.500 Server busy". Our teams are actively monitoring the situation. No other email providers are currently affected.
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