The branch committee is aware of an intermittent problem with Microsoft-owned personal email addresses, such as outlook.com, hotmail.com, hotmail.co.uk and live.com, rejecting emails from the UCU University of Leeds branch mailing list.

The committee raised this issue with UCU IT in July 2025, and the UCU IT team made changes to the settings for our specific mailing list which fixed the problem for a while, but the problem has returned.

The committee has contacted the UCU IT team again, and UCU’s IT contractor have contacted Microsoft.

Microsoft acknowledged to UCU that there is an intermittent problem with their system wrongly rejecting emails from our mailing list but have told UCU’s IT contractor that resolving the intermittent problem is not on Microsoft’s “roadmap”.

So that the branch committee can keep UCU members informed, the committee is recommending you change your contact email to one that isn’t stopping communications from UCU, such as changing to a @leeds.ac.uk email or a different personal email address.

You can update your preferred email address using ‘My UCU‘.