Microsoft confirmed a major email service outage across North America that is stopping inboxes from filling up and may be hitting other apps when logging in.

"We're investigating an issue affecting a portion of infrastructure in North America, where users may be unable to access their mailbox via any Exchange Online connection method," it stated in a notice at 0936 in its home time zone (1636 UTC for the rest of customers.)

The usual suspects are out, but no word on a fix yet - Click to enlarge

The problem is more than just the standard stutter - two hours later, Microsoft was still baffled. Microsoft has been digging through its data banks without success and blocked inboxes and unstable traffic persist. There have been unconfirmed reports of OneDrive being affected too.

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