Outlook blocking domains - I'm doing something wrong!
Outlook blocking domains - I'm doing something wrong!
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jimmydash

Original Poster:

288 posts

151 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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My mate sent me an email, I didnt get it, he tried again, no arrival. I checked my "Blocked Domains" in junk and found
outlook.com
gmail.com and
hotmail.co.uk

I do choose to block individual senders but wouldnt ever choose to block these 3 domains. What am I doing wrong?

walamai

459 posts

237 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Do you have a version of Outlook older than Outlook 2007? It should be hard to do it on any version of Outlook after 2007

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troublesh...

Not sure how you could accidentally do it!

jimmydash

Original Poster:

288 posts

151 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Bang up to date!

LordGrover

34,185 posts

242 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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It's easy to do if you intend to do so:


jimmydash

Original Poster:

288 posts

151 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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LordGrover said:
It's easy to do if you intend to do so:

I agree, that's straightforward to do................but I didnt (knowingly) choose to block every emaill address from gmail, outlook and H.co.uk

LordGrover

34,185 posts

242 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Is it feasible you've been 'hacked'?

Several hacked users here have had a rule set up deleting all email sent by any address including '@' - I guess the hackers do this to delay the victim realising what's happened.

jimmydash

Original Poster:

288 posts

151 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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LordGrover said:
Is it feasible you've been 'hacked'?

Several hacked users here have had a rule set up deleting all email sent by any address including '@' - I guess the hackers do this to delay the victim realising what's happened.
Interesting, I didn't think of a hack, I thought it was me being stupid, I have current cyber security in 2 forms and see no sign of a hack but will run a cleanser just in case.

LordGrover

34,185 posts

242 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Change your password anyway - never a bad idea.

jimmydash

Original Poster:

288 posts

151 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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LordGrover said:
Change your password anyway - never a bad idea.
yep