Outlook.com in practice

I’ve seen a few people talking about outlook.com and how it’s working. There aren’t many insights here but there are a couple.

  • Images are not always showing up from all senders.
  • There are two different “safe” sender lists: one for individuals and one for mailing lists.
  • If you log in with a live.com account address (rather than a hotmail address or instead of creating a new outlook.com address) that email address will be used in the From line outbound mail. This has been causing SPF problems for a some people.
  • Outlook is not signing with DKIM
  • Outlook is authenticating with SPF (not senderID)

What have other people been seeing in terms of problems, issues or quirks with Outlook? What do you like about it?

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