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Reza_Ameri-Archived
Mar 31, 2017Bronze Contributor
Don't Delete! Mark it as Junk instead
One common mistake among most users and even IT administrators is they are deleting Spam and Malicious messages from their Inbox (those messages that bypass Anti-Spam). Deleting message just delete it and won't help anyone else. But you should mark it as Junk instead.
Doing so , not only place the message into spam folder but it also notify the Anti-Spam engine that there was a message which classified incorrectly and if the same message send to other people, it will be blocked.
- James HainautCopper Contributor
I forward the message 'as an attachment' to junk@office365.microsoft.com and/or phish@office365.microsoft.com. The email item will be sent to the Microsoft mail security team for further analysis and investigation to help to improve the effectiveness of our email filtering technologies.
Here's How:
- Select the spam message from your list of email messages, without opening the message
- From the Home menu - Respond section, select More
- Select Forward as Attachment
- Send the email to: junk@office365.microsoft.com and/or phish@office365.microsoft.com
Then mark as junk and delete the message
- Reza_Ameri-ArchivedBronze Contributor
Thank you for sharing this.
It is also a wise stratgey, mark as Junk also have the similar mechanism and it is easier for most users. Your method is also a good way especially if you see spam in another email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Company mail,etc.) and you want to share it with Microsoft.