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This Is How Microsoft Intends To Block Reply-All Email Storms

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Ever wanted to reply to one person in a mail and instead reply everybody tagged in the thread? Well, Microsoft has launched a new feature for its Office 365 and Exchange users and IT staff to detect and stop “Reply-All email storms.”

 

The new block feature is being rolled out to detect 10 reply-all emails to over 5,000 recipients within 60 minutes. This will mostly benefit large organizations.

 

In a situation where the number of recipients in the email chain is large, and multiple employees hit the Reply-All button, then the ensuing event clogs and crashes email servers.

 

Microsoft itself knows first hand how that feels. More than 52,000 employees were involved in a reply-all storm that clogged its internal communications for hours in March 2020.

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The company had also announced that it would work on the Reply-All storm protection feature in Office 365 and Exchange mail servers at the 2019 Ignite conference.

 

Microsoft Email Storms
The Microsoft Reply-All Protection will limit email storms.

 

“Over time, as we gather usage telemetry and customer feedback, we expect to tweak, fine-tune, and enhance the Reply All Storm Protection feature to make it even more valuable to a broader range of Office 365 customers,” Microsoft’s Exchange transport team explains.

 

The Reply-All storm protection feature will block all email threads with more than 5,000 recipients that have generated over 10 Reply-All sequences within the last 60 minutes.

 

After the storm triggers the feature, Exchange Online will block all the replies in the email thread for four hours. This will help the servers prioritize the actual emails and shut down the Reply-All storm.

 

Microsoft has also been testing the feature on its own network as it has suffered similar problems.

 

“Humans still behave like humans no matter which company they work for. We’re already seeing the first version of the feature successfully reduce the impact of reply all storms within Microsoft,” the Exchange team explains.

 

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