You'll also need an Office 365 business account to enable add-ins. Exchange servers provide server-side junk mail filtering, and most popular email providers, such as Hotmail,, Gmail, and Yahoo, provide server-side. Email messages are not scanned client-side by Outlook 2016 for Mac to determine whether they are junk mail. This add-in works with your Office 365 subscription and the following versions of Outlook: Outlook on the web, Outlook 2013 SP1, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2016 for the Mac, and Outlook included with Office 365 ProPlus. Instead, it only relies on the mail server to perform all junk mail filtering. SEE: Phishing attacks: A guide for IT pros (free PDF) (TechRepublic)įirst, if you use Outlook, install and enable the Report Message add-in. Microsoft analyzes such messages to improve its spam filtering technology.
You can also use it to report a 'false positive,' meaning a legitimate email that was incorrectly identified as spam. Log in to the webmail version of your email account HERE To check your Junk Folder, simply click the Junk folder link on. In addition, you can use the process to report a 'false negative,' meaning a spam message that should have been identified as spam but was not.
Another option is to report the email to Microsoft for analysis via the Outlook add-in called Report Message or a specific Microsoft address. You receive an email that you find suspicious-potentially a phishing email-so you ignore or delete it. Gathering the right people, content and resources, ITPro Today gives IT professionals insight into the technologies and skills needed to take on the.
