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duntlessOutlook
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Apr 09, 2026

Email Showing as Quarantined in a Message Trace, but Not Showing up in MS Defender

A customer of ours was waiting on an email to arrive and to help figure out where the email was or if it was sent yet we ran a message trace. The message trace showed that the email was sent to quarantine. With this information in mind, I went to MS Defender > Email & collaboration > Review > Quarantine but could not find the message. 

 

I modified some of the filters and could not get the quarantined message to appear. I triple checked the filters I created and made sure the information was correct. I also removed all filters and looked for the time period the email came in, but could not find it.

 

Not sure if this is related, but this email had a significant delay likely coming from the sender.

  Any thoughts or ideas? Or anything that I am missing?

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  • You should be able to filter quarantined messages based on the MessageID, which in turn you can get from the message trace:

    Get-QuarantineMessage -MessageId "<blabla-AB4D661B46@blabla.com>"