Set preferences for Microsoft Exchange spam filtering
You can customize spam filtering in the following ways.
Enable or block messages from specific email addresses or domain names
- Sign in to your Spam Quarantine account by selecting theclick herelink in your daily Spam Quarantine Summary email message.
- Select thePreferencestab, thenWhitelist/Blacklistsubtab.
- Do one of the following.
- In the Allowed Email Addresses and Domains section, enter an email address or domain name in the text field and select theAddbutton. Messages from the email address or domain you added will be delivered to your Outlook inbox.
- In the Blocked Email Addresses and Domains section, enter an email address or domain name in the text field and select theAddbutton. Messages from the email address or domain you added will be blocked; they won’t be delivered to your Outlook inbox.
note- You can enter information in the following formats:
- user@domain.com
- domain.com
- comTo block an entire top-level domain, the dot needs to be omitted. For example, to block all “dot-com” addresses, entercominstead of.com.
- To enable or deny multiple addresses or domain names, select theBulk Editbutton in the correct section, enter the addresses or domain names in the text box, and select theSave Changesbutton. PressEnterafter each email address or domain name.
Send spam messages to your Outlook inbox with a [QUARANTINE] identifier
Quarantined messages are normally placed in your Spam Quarantine account. If you prefer, you can have these messages delivered to your Outlook inbox with the subject preceded by “[QUARANTINE]”.
- Sign in to your Spam Quarantine account by selecting theclick herelink in your daily Spam Quarantine Summary email message.noteYou can also access your Spam Quarantine account by going to https://spamfilter.netlinksolution.com, then signing in using your Microsoft Exchange email address.
- Select thePreferencestab, then select theQuarantine Settingssubtab.
- In the Quarantine Enable/Disable section, select theNooption.
- Select theSave Changesbutton.
Messages identified as spam will now be sent to your Outlook inbox. The subject of the message will begin with “[QUARANTINE]”.
Change the frequency you receive Spam Quarantine Summary email messages
Spam Quarantine Summary email messages are sent each morning by default. However, you can change the frequency with which these messages are sent.
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Even when the Spam Summary Notification Interval preference is Daily, there are 2 exceptions that prevent the Barracuda from sending the notification:
- If there is no new quarantined mail for you since the last notification interval, no summary email will be sent
- If you sign into your Quarantine Inbox since the last notification interval, no summary email will be sent
- Sign in to your Spam Quarantine account by selecting theclick herelink at the bottom of your daily Spam Quarantine Summary email message.noteYou can also access your Spam Quarantine account by going to https://spamfilter.netlinksolution.com and signing in using your Microsoft Exchange email address.
- Select thePreferencestab.
- Select theQuarantine Settingssubtab.
- In the Quarantine Notification section, select an option.
- SelectSave Changes.
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In this section, you can also change the email address to which the Spam Quarantine Summary email message is sent.
Change the language your Spam Quarantine Summary message is delivered
- Sign in to your Spam Quarantine account by selecting theclick herelink at the bottom of your daily Spam Quarantine Summary email message.noteYou can also access your Spam Quarantine account by going to https://spamfilter.netlinksolution.com and signing in using your Microsoft Exchange email address.
- Select thePreferencestab.
- Select theQuarantine Settingssubtab.
- In the Default Language section, select the language from theDefault Languagedropdown list.
- SelectSave Changes.
Turn off spam filtering
Follow these steps to turn off spam filtering for your Microsoft Exchange email account.
- Sign in to your Spam Quarantine account by selecting theclick herelink at the bottom of your daily Spam Quarantine Summary email message.noteYou can also access your Spam Quarantine account by going to https://spamfilter.netlinksolution.com and signing in using your Microsoft Exchange email address.
- Select thePreferencestab.
- Select theSpam Settingssubtab.
- Select theNooption.
- SelectSave Changes.