Bright incident

Emails to Microsoft accounts

Resolved after 5 days 7 hours, affecting section-138673 (BrightManager) and section-138673 (BrightManager), on August 20, 2026.

resolved Aug 25, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

We have applied a mitigation to allow emails to reach Microsoft email addresses such as live.com, hotmail.com and outlook.com

Started
Aug 20, 2026, 01:19 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 25, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
Duration
5d 7h
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 20, 2026, 01:19 PM UTC

Affected components

section-138673 (BrightManager)section-138673 (BrightManager)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Aug 20, 2026, 01:19 PM UTC

    Outbound emails for document signing and letters of engagement addressed to recipients with Microsoft hosted email accounts like hotmail.com, outlook.com and live.com are being rejected by Microsoft. Other providers are not experiencing issues. The team are investigating.

  2. resolved Aug 25, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

    We have applied a mitigation to allow emails to reach Microsoft email addresses such as live.com, hotmail.com and outlook.com

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