Some users’ email with attachments sent from Outlook for Mac may be delivered without attachments

Title: Some users’ email with attachments sent from Outlook for Mac may be delivered without attachments

User impact: Users’ email with attachments sent from Outlook for Mac may be delivered without attachments.

More info: Users can verify if they’ve encountered this problem in Outlook for Mac by reviewing their Sent Items to validate if a sent message contains an attachment. If users don’t see the attachment, they can reply to the message in their Sent Items folder to reattach and send the message again.

Current status: We’ve completed development of the previously mentioned supplemental code update to potentially reduce or resolve the issue, and we’re preparing it for deployment to the impacted service area. We anticipate the fix will begin deployment by our next scheduled update, at which time we’re aiming to provide a timeline to remediation.

Scope of impact: This issue is specific to a very small percentage of users’ email with attachments sent from Outlook for Mac.

Start time: Monday, July 10, 2023, at 8:08 PM UTC

Root cause: A conflict occurring with how our service detects attachment IDs before sending email in Outlook for Mac is resulting in the service removing attachments on sending email.

Next update by: Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at 7:30 PM UTC