<story><title>Tell HN: Microsoft classifies own emails as junk</title><text>While going through my Outlook junk folder, I noticed that nearly all my Azure related mails are classified as such.&lt;p&gt;These e-mails are all real and also sent by addresses like azure@email.microsoft.com with the source SMTP server being in a subdomain of PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.&lt;p&gt;How comes that Microsoft would not just whitelist their own domains on their own e-mail service?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zvolsky</author><text>The fact that Microsoft doesn&amp;#x27;t just whitelist their own domains speaks to their commitment to strict security measures and good engineering culture. Special cases aren&amp;#x27;t special enough to break the rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wongarsu</author><text>If they don&amp;#x27;t whitelist and use the rate at which their own emails end as spam to improve their spam filter, that&amp;#x27;s great engineering culture.&lt;p&gt;If they don&amp;#x27;t whitelist and the emails just land in spam without anyone taking notice, that reminds me more of the well-known slightly satirical image of Microsoft&amp;#x27;s org chart [1]&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bonkersworld.net&amp;#x2F;organizational-charts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bonkersworld.net&amp;#x2F;organizational-charts&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Microsoft classifies own emails as junk</title><text>While going through my Outlook junk folder, I noticed that nearly all my Azure related mails are classified as such.&lt;p&gt;These e-mails are all real and also sent by addresses like azure@email.microsoft.com with the source SMTP server being in a subdomain of PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.&lt;p&gt;How comes that Microsoft would not just whitelist their own domains on their own e-mail service?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zvolsky</author><text>The fact that Microsoft doesn&amp;#x27;t just whitelist their own domains speaks to their commitment to strict security measures and good engineering culture. Special cases aren&amp;#x27;t special enough to break the rules.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomanydoubts</author><text>&amp;gt;speaks to their commitment to strict security measures and good engineering culture&lt;p&gt;Does it really or does it just mean that nobody cared enough to do it for whatever reason?</text></comment>