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OWASP Email Problems (and solutions)

Andrew van der Stock, August 1, 2024

Recently, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo and other major email providers have been implementing stricter email authentication controls. This is a good thing, as it helps to reduce the amount of spam and phishing emails that we all receive. However, it can also cause problems for legitimate email senders, such as OWASP. In the last month or so, we have experienced great difficulty in sending emails to Microsoft email addresses (Office 365, Exchange Online, Outlook, Hotmail, Live, etc). This has been a major problem for us, as many of our members and volunteers use Microsoft email addresses. We have been working hard to resolve this issue. In this post, we document a solution that every Microsoft user needs to do to reliably receive our email.

We have created staff accounts on owaspfoundation.org. Our staff will only let you know how to un-quarantine our emails, with a link to this blog post, and to ask that you reply to the original email once restored to your Inbox.