

If you use a Office 365 account, all names and addresses in the global address list (GAL) are automatically considered safe. You can add your Contacts and other correspondents to this list. Safe Senders List Email addresses and domain names in the Safe Senders List are never treated as junk email, regardless of the content of the message. You can add names, email addresses and domains to these lists so the filter doesn't check messages from sources you trust, or blocks messages that arrive from specific email addresses and domains you don't know or trust. While the Junk Email Filter checks your incoming messages automatically, Junk Email Filter Lists let you control what is considered spam. Click Home > Junk > Junk Email Options.To change the options for the Junk Email Filter, do the following: These can include the time when the message was sent and the content of the message. The Junk Email Filter evaluates each incoming message based on several factors. You can make the filter more aggressive by changing the level of protection that it provides. You can also mark the item as not junk by doing the following:īy default, the Junk Email Filter is turned on and the protection level is set to No Automatic Filtering. If you find a message that isn't junk, drag it back to the Inbox or any folder. We recommend you regularly review messages in the Junk Email folder to check for legitimate messages that were incorrectly classified as junk. Please refer to our Office 365 (Outlook on the web | Outlook for Windows/MacOS) - Using Inbox Rules document. All rules/filters should be created in Outlook on the web. For UW-Madison users, many clients will have local junk mail filtering disabled entirely. Office 365 Team Junk Mail Filtering Recommendation: It is the recommendation of the Office 365 team for users to disable all local client (Outlook, Apple Mail, etc.) automated junk mail filters and local client rules/filters in Office 365.
