{"id":1049431,"date":"2026-11-14T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1049431"},"modified":"2026-11-14T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T06:12:37","slug":"microsoft-365-outage-crosses-16-hours-what-happens-to-emails-you-send-and-receive-while-outlook-is-down-as-microsoft-extends-email-timeout-window-to-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/14\/microsoft-365-outage-crosses-16-hours-what-happens-to-emails-you-send-and-receive-while-outlook-is-down-as-microsoft-extends-email-timeout-window-to-48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft 365 outage crosses 16 hours: What happens to emails you send and receive while Outlook is down, as Microsoft extends email timeout window to 48 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outlook has been down for more than 16 hours for millions of Microsoft 365 users. The outage began around 11:30 pm IST on November 12, and people kept sending emails through the night without knowing where they would end up. Many are now asking the same question: what happens to all the emails sent and received while Outlook was down?<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s latest status update offers a clear answer. The company said it has extended the email timeout window to 48 hours \u201cto protect delayed mail\u201d while it clears the queue and backlog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outlook has been down for more than 16 hours for millions of Microsoft 365 users. The outage began around 11:30 pm IST on November 12, and people kept sending emails through the night without knowing where they would end up. Many are now asking the same question: what happens to all the emails sent and received while Outlook was down? Microsoft\u2019s latest status update offers a clear answer. The company said it has extended the email timeout window to 48 hours \u201cto protect delayed mail\u201d while it clears the queue and backlog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049432,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049431\/revisions\/1049432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}