Message blocked because it contains content identified as spam. AS(4810) - PDF issue

Anonymous
2023-11-06T05:01:14+00:00

I am trying to send a PDF attachment and I keep getting the message that it's been identified as spam. I haven't had this issue until tonight, and PDF attachments worked 24 hours ago. This is happening from multiple recipients: Gmail, Yahoo, .me, etc.

Things I've tried:

Test emails without the attachment (they go through)

Test emails with a different PDF attachment that I sent yesterday (they don't go through)

Test emails with different text in the subject and message body, and with the attachment (they don't go through)

Test emails with the file as a .fdx (Final Draft) rather than PDF (they go through)

Test emails as a One Drive link rather than an attachment (they go through)

Renaming the PDF file (it doesn't go through)

So it appears to be a PDF issue. I'm accessing Outlook on my browser using Chrome on a MacBook Pro. For work purposes I need to be able to send PDF documents as attachments, so I'm hoping to get this figured out soon. I work in a television writer's room so 7 million viewers are depending on me!

Thanks so much for any advice!

Outlook | MacOS | Legacy Outlook for Mac | For business

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-11-06T21:49:36+00:00

    i only use the web one. How can I get the old one?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-06T21:41:57+00:00

    I had this same issue, it appears to be an issue with the updated version of Microsoft outlook. I reverted back to the old version and the issue doesn't appear to happen now. Hope this helps!

    How do you go back to the old version of Outlook?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-11-06T21:38:05+00:00

    Ouchie I have the same thing and wasted so much time today trying to fix it. Microsoft Please fix!!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-11-06T21:23:35+00:00

    CANT SEND ATTACHMENTS

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-11-06T21:15:37+00:00

    I found sending them to one drive circumvents the spam issue

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