Since it was launched, Exchange Online Protection has supported spam quarantine, but the administrator was the only person who was able to release spam messages from quarantine in the Exchange admin center. For example, many former Postini customers switching to Exchange Online Protection used spam quarantine in the past, and they want to continue using that familiar method.

However, some customers have non-Exchange email systems that don’t support the Junk Email folder approach, or they just prefer the spam quarantine. Sending spam to the Junk Email folder is the typical choice for customers who run Outlook and Exchange Server, because it’s the simplest approach for users to understand. Customers can have spam sent to the Junk Email folder in Outlook and Outlook Web App or they can direct it into a web-based quarantine. Users don’t want these messages in their inboxes, but they often like to review them to make sure no good messages (false positives) are mixed in with the bad.Įxchange Online Protection provides two primary options for handling spam detected by our content filters. Spam notificationsĮmail filtering gateways do a great job of filtering out obvious spam, but a small percentage (about 3%) of email comes through that is likely to be spam. Customers will see these updates by the end of October. This week we’re beginning to roll out a couple of key additions: localized end-user spam notifications and the ability to configure the frequency from 1 to 15 days. In June we released the ability to create custom spam and malware filter policies and apply them to specific domains, groups, or users. We update the service frequently with new capabilities. Exchange Online Protection is already included in Exchange Online and for Office 365 for business customers. This new service, called Exchange Online Protection (EOP), provides spam and malware filtering in the cloud for $1 per user per month. Last March we released a shiny new version of the email filtering service formerly known as Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE). Shobhit Sahay is a product marketing manager on the Exchange team.

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