Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Email and collaborationAnti Spam Policies Configure
In brief
The article corrects punctuation in the example about routing email through a non-Microsoft protection service before delivery to Microsoft 365.
What Defender admins need to know
No administrator action is required; the guidance is clearer to read.
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- You can't completely turn off spam filtering, but you can use Exchange mail flow rules (also known as transport rules) to bypass most spam filtering on incoming messages. For example, if you route email through a non-Microsoft protection service or device before delivery to Microsoft
365).365. For more information, see Use mail flow rules to set the spam confidence level (SCL) in messages.- High confidence phishing messages are still filtered. Other filters in Microsoft 365 aren't affected (for example, messages are always scanned for malware).
- If you need to bypass spam filtering for SecOps mailboxes or phishing simulations, don't use mail flow rules. For more information, see Configure the delivery of non-Microsoft phishing simulations to users and unfiltered messages to SecOps mailboxes.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ You can configure anti-spam policies in the Microsoft Defender portal or in [Exc > [!TIP] > Settings in the default or custom anti-spam policies are ignored if a recipient is also included in the [Standard or Strict preset security policies](preset-security-policies.md). For more information, see [Order and precedence of email protection](how-policies-and-protections-are-combined.md). -- You can't completely turn off spam filtering, but you can use Exchange mail flow rules (also known as transport rules) to bypass most spam filtering on incoming messages. For example, if you route email through a non-Microsoft protection service or device before delivery to Microsoft 365). For more information, see [Use mail flow rules to set the spam confidence level (SCL) in messages](/exchange/security-and-compliance/mail-flow-rules/use-rules-to-set-scl).+- You can't completely turn off spam filtering, but you can use Exchange mail flow rules (also known as transport rules) to bypass most spam filtering on incoming messages. For example, if you route email through a non-Microsoft protection service or device before delivery to Microsoft 365. For more information, see [Use mail flow rules to set the spam confidence level (SCL) in messages](/exchange/security-and-compliance/mail-flow-rules/use-rules-to-set-scl). - High confidence phishing messages are still filtered. Other filters in Microsoft 365 aren't affected (for example, messages are always scanned for malware). - If you need to bypass spam filtering for SecOps mailboxes or phishing simulations, don't use mail flow rules. For more information, see [Configure the delivery of non-Microsoft phishing simulations to users and unfiltered messages to SecOps mailboxes](advanced-delivery-policy-configure.md).