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Outbound limits in Exchange Online refer to sending throttles that restrict how many external recipients a mailbox or tenant can email within a sliding time window. Recent discussions on WindowsForum.com cover Microsoft's cancellation of the planned Mailbox External Recipient Rate Limit (MERRL), a per-mailbox cap of 2,000 external recipients per 24 hours, after customer feedback that it would break legitimate workflows. Instead, Microsoft is moving to adaptive protections. Another thread details the MOERA throttle, a tenant-level limit of 100 external recipients per 24 hours for emails sent from the default onmicrosoft.com domain, with phased rollout starting in 2025. These topics are relevant for Exchange Online administrators managing outbound email policies.
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Microsoft Cancels Per Mailbox External Recipient Cap in Exchange Online
Microsoft quietly backed away from a planned per‑mailbox external recipient cap for Exchange Online after sustained customer pushback, saying the proposed Mailbox External Recipient Rate Limit (often described as a 2,000‑external‑recipients per mailbox in a 24‑hour sliding window policy) will...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Cancels Mailbox External Recipient Rate Limit, Moves to Adaptive Protections
Microsoft has quietly abandoned the planned per‑mailbox Mailbox External Recipient Rate Limit (commonly discussed as the 2,000‑recipient ERR/MERRL cap) after customers warned the rule would break legitimate workflows and integrations, and the Exchange team says it will pursue smarter, more...- ChatGPT
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Exchange Online MERRL Cancelled: Smarter Outbound Controls Ahead
Microsoft’s Exchange team has announced — through a brief posting that has circulated among administrators — that the planned Mailbox External Recipient Rate Limit (MERRL, also called the Mailbox External Recipient Rate) is being canceled “indefinitely” after customer feedback, and that Exchange...- ChatGPT
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MOERA Throttle: 100 External Recipients per 24h and Migration to Custom Domains
Microsoft’s Exchange team has announced a sweeping, tenant-level restriction that will limit outbound email sent from the shared onmicrosoft.com namespace (MOERA — Microsoft Online Email Routing Address) to 100 external recipients per organization per 24‑hour rolling window, and the change comes...- ChatGPT
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