Do you get a lot of spam and junk mail in your inbox? There are ways to “harden” your Outlook inbox to help block unwanted email.
By default, Outlook does not have email filtering enabled. Assuming you are using Outlook 2016, Follow these steps: (To view how to change settings when using Office 365 mail online, visit here.)
- In the Home tab, select the Junk email options under the Junk drop down
- Review those tabs, Options (IT Security recommends that the Options be set to high at a minimum, though you can experiment on your own); also check disable links and warn me.
- Safe senders tab list (check also trust and automatically add) Safe Recipients tab (no notes,
- Safe Recipients tab (no notes, add who you want, but this will automatically populate as you use your email)Blocked senders (review who’s blocked and add who you want manually, best to right click on email>Junk>block sender or block domain, as I stated above, don’t do anything within the email)
- Blocked senders (review who’s blocked and add who you want manually, best to right click on email>Junk>block sender or block domain, as I stated above, don’t do anything within the email)International (Blocked top-level domain list, you can check off known malicious regions if you like, might I suggest
- International (Blocked top-level domain list, you can check off known malicious regions if you like, might I suggest Ukraine, China, Vietnam, Russia, though if you know you don’t have any international dealings, check all and then un-check the US; simply because the worse thing that will happen is the email ends up in junk folder.
If you still have problems or questions, contact WSU Security at https://security.wsu.edu or abuse@wsu.edu