SOLVED: VIDEO: Stop Outlook.com Blocking Your Message & Massively Increase Your Daily Email Limit

If you’ve recently tried to send out an important bulk email, a calendar invite to your entire team, or simply been highly active on a brand new account, you have undoubtedly been stopped dead in your tracks by the soul-crushing message: “Outlook.com Has Blocked Your Message.”

The full message usually says something like:

The daily message limit helps us free the world from spammers. We’re sorry it’s getting in your way.

While we appreciate Microsoft’s efforts to combat spam, this restriction is a massive pain for legitimate, high-volume users.

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The simple fact is, your free Outlook.com account is limited. For brand new accounts, we’ve seen this restriction be as low as ten emails per day or a single message with a maximum of ten recipients. Even long-term, established free accounts are usually capped at 300 emails per day or 100 recipients on any single message. If you need to send messages in bulk, these limits simply won’t cut it.

How To Get Around Outlook.com’s Daily Message Limit?

The definitive, straightforward, and Microsoft-approved solution is to upgrade your account by associating it with a Microsoft 365 Family subscription. This simple step transforms your free account into a powerful communication tool with greatly expanded quotas.

Here is the step-by-step process to eliminate this frustration and increase your Outlook sending quota to the maximum limit.

Step 1: Access the Microsoft 365 Administrator Account

To start, you must be signed into the primary account that manages the Microsoft 365 Family subscription. This is the administrator, not just one of the shared users.

1. Navigate to the Microsoft account portal: https://www.google.com/search?q=account.microsoft.com
2. Sign in as the subscription administrator
3. Once signed in, click on the Services & subscriptions tab
   • or you can add /services to the end of the URL to go there directly
4. Locate your Microsoft 365 Family subscription. You will see a prompt to Share your subscription. Click this link to open the sharing options

Step 2: Share the Subscription with the Limited Account

Your goal is to invite the limited Outlook.com email address to join the family subscription.

1. From the sharing options screen, select the option to Email Invite
2. Type or paste the restricted Outlook.com email address into the invite field.
3. Click the Share button

The invite has now been sent. The system will dispatch an invitation email to the limited account, which the user must accept to complete the process.

Step 3: Accept the Invitation and Join the Family

Now, switch to the perspective of the user whose account was limited.

1. Sign in to the mailbox of the restricted Outlook.com account
2. Check your Junk Mail folder. Quite often, the invitation email from Microsoft lands in spam. If you can’t find it in your Inbox, it’s almost certainly lurking in the Junk folder
3. Locate the invitation email and click on the Get Started button or copy and paste the provided link into your browser
4. Follow the prompts to confirm and Join Now

You will receive a confirmation message; something along the lines of “Congratulations, you’re now a part of the family.” While this seems geared towards software installs and storage, the most important benefit for your problem has just been activated.

The Wrap

By linking your Outlook.com account to a Microsoft 365 Family subscription, you immediately bypass the low-volume limits imposed on free users.

Your account is now eligible for a massive increase in its sending limits:

• Daily Message Limit: Raised to 5,000 messages per day
• Recipient Limit: You can now include up to 500 recipients on any single email message

You can now send bulk communication without fear of being blocked. Furthermore, you now have access to a terabyte of OneDrive storage and the ability to install Microsoft 365 applications, but the immediate relief from the “Outlook.com Has Blocked Your Message” error is the true prize.

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