Microsoft Outlook users, mainly in North America, are facing a lot of trouble currently with repeated outages. The first problem was reported today, according to Downdetector and they are yet to be solved. According to the real-time outage monitoring website, the majority of users complain have reported problems with server connection, login, and receiving email.

What is causing the Outlook downtime?

In a few Twitter posts, Microsoft has acknowledged the problem, which initially affected only the North American users apparently. However, issues were reported all over the world shortly after. Problems with essential email functions, such as send, receive, and search, appeared on Outlook. These are the error messages showing up when users are trying to send emails using the Outlook web service. It also impacted users of other services, such as Microsoft Teams. Users mentioned that at times they managed to log in, although extremely slow, but then other functionalities of the service remained unresponsive.

How can I access Outlook if the service is down?

1.Use an alternative email client

We are recommending Mailbird as a great freeware alternative to Outlook. This is a simple, extremely reliable email client that lets you manage several email accounts and contacts from a single console. It’s conveniently integrated with a huge variety of third-party apps such as Google Calendar, WeChat, WhatsApp, Google Docs, Slack. And set up is extremely easy.  2. Use a VPN

Some users mentioned that despite the outage they managed to connect to the Outlook client using a VPN. We strongly endorse this workaround, considering that a VPN not only protects your online presence but, as seen, can bypass major technical issues given the possibility to access other servers that are functional. On this note, we recommend PIA (Private Internet Access) because of the huge server database that you can connect to whenever your email client’s servers are down. Are you still experiencing problems with the Outlook client? Do try one of the solutions mentioned above and tell us if it helped you get back on track with your emails.

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