[ms office - 2016] Office 365 Tenant Spam filter settings

[kirbster73]

Hi,

 

Wondering what others have their spam filter settings as on O365. There is a setting for 1-10 for how strong the filter is. Apparently 5 is normal and the higher you go the more bulk mail is stopped as Spam.

 

What do others have theirs set to?

[LukeC]

Ours is set to 8 with a quarntine notification sent to sent every 3 days if something had been blocked. We also do other bits too like blocking certain files and languages in emails and block js in html etc.

[mullet_man]

Where abouts is the setting? Always is more than likely set on the default setting but just recently we have been bombarded with a lot of spam emails a lot are going into the spam folder a lot are getting straight through to the inbox.

 

Would be interested to see if changing this setting will help?

[kirbster73]

Hi,in exchange admin centre is a protection tab, inside there is the quarantine, spam filter, malware filter etc. Ours was set on 5 which is default, but we've had loads of spam, so I've turned it up. As an aside, I also noticed that our malware filter was also off!!!

[mullet_man]

Thanks kirbster, ours was set on 7 which was the default? Anyway I've moved ours down to five as a test.

 

Let's see what happens.

 

Thanks

[Ashfold]

We have ours on 6 but i have also used the "Apply sensitive word list" option in advanced which I found helpful in reducing spam and I have blocked some countries and languages.

 

I also block some file types but not for spam reasons.

[mullet_man]

We have ours on 6 but i have also used the "Apply sensitive word list" option in advanced which I found helpful in reducing spam and I have blocked some countries and languages.

 

I also block some file types but not for spam reasons.

 

Am going to look into blocking file types also, not noticed a major difference with upping the spam filter as yet. Might up it 1 more.

 

Thanks.