Monitoring failed emails to Microsoft Outlook.com, Live, Hotmail accounts

Hello,

We've recently identified a need to monitor our exchange server to detect issues with the server being blacklisted by Microsoft. We would like to monitor a test email to a valid Outlook.com test mailbox and determine if it is rejected or not. See typical reply message below.

Any suggestions on how to implement this in SAM?

Thanks.

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silverbacksays

If you had WPM you could set up a check using mxtoolbox.com and then parse the result (see if there's any "listed" values on the page).

In SAM, try one of these templates:

Hopefully one of these will help. They're built in ones, so you don't even have to download 'em from Thwack

aLTeReGo

This can be done using the IMAP4 User Experience Monitor. Simply configure the SMTP Server setting to send the email to your internal mail servers SMTP server address, and the IMAP settings to use Outlook.com as stated below.

Set up an email app with Outlook.com - Outlook.com Help

If your email app doesn’t support Exchange ActiveSync, it might use IMAP. Unlike POP, which only syncs your inbox, IMAP syncs all your email folders.

Use the following settings in your email app.

Incoming (IMAP) Server
- Server address: imap-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 993
- Encrypted Connection: SSL
Outgoing (SMTP) Server
- Server address: smtp-mail.outlook.com
- Port: 25 (or 587 if 25 is blocked)
- Authentication: Yes
- Encrypted Connection: TLS
User name: Your email address
Password: Your password