Use the Block or Allow settings to help control unwanted and unsolicited email messages by creating and managing lists of email addresses and domains that you trust and those that you don’t. To manage junk email settings, select Settings
> Options, and then select one of the following:
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Block or allow
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Mail > Accounts > Block or allow
Use block or allow settings to manage junk email
Junk email settings
Safe senders and recipients
Safe senders are domains and people you always want to receive email messages from. Safe recipients are recipients that you don't want to block, usually groups that you’re a member of. Messages received from any email address or domain in your safe senders and recipients list are never sent to your Junk Email folder. However, they may be blocked before they reach your mailbox by junk email filtering settings on the server that hosts your mailbox.
How do I add a sender or a domain?
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Sign in to Outlook Web App. For help, see Sign in to Outlook on the web.
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At the top of the page, choose Outlook (or Mail). Or, choose the app launcher
> Mail.
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At the top of the page, select Settings
> Options, and then select one of the following:-
Block or Allow
OR
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Mail > Accounts > Block or allow
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To add an entry to Safe senders and recipients, enter the email address or domain that you want to mark as safe in the Enter a sender or domain here text box, and then press Enter or select the plus icon
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For example, to mark all email from addresses that end in contoso.com as safe, enter contoso.com in the text box.
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To mark a particular person as safe, enter that person's full email address. For example, to mark all messages from tonysmith@contoso.com as safe, enter tonysmit@contoso.com in the text box.
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Select Save to save your changes.
How do I remove a sender or domain?
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To remove an entry from Safe senders and recipients, select the entry to highlight it, and then select the minus icon
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Select Save to save your changes.
How do I edit a sender or domain?
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To change an entry in Safe senders and recipients, select the entry to highlight it, and then select the edit icon
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Make any changes you want.
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Select Save to save your changes.
Blocked senders
Blocked senders are domains and people you don't want to receive email messages from. Messages received from any email address or domain listed in your blocked senders list are sent directly to your Junk Email folder.
How do I add a sender or domain?
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Sign in to Outlook Web App. For help, see Sign in to Outlook on the web.
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At the top of the page, choose Outlook (or Mail). Or, choose the app launcher
> Mail.
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At the top of the page, select Settings
> Options, and then select one of the following:-
Block or Allow
OR
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Mail > Accounts > Block or allow
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To add an entry to Blocked senders, enter the email address or domain that you want to block in the Enter a sender or domain here text box, and then press Enter or select the plus icon
next to the text box.-
For example, to block all email from addresses that end in contoso.com, enter contoso.com in the text box.
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To block a particular person, enter that person's full email address. For example, to block all messages from tonysmith@contoso.com, enter tonysmith@contoso.com in the text box.
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Select Save to save your changes.
How do I remove a sender or domain?
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To remove an entry from your Blocked senders list, select the entry to highlight it, and then select the minus icon
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Select Save to save your changes.
How do I edit a sender or domain?
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To change an entry in Blocked senders, select the entry to highlight it, and then select the edit icon
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Make any changes you want.
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Select Save to save your changes.
What else do I need to know?
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If you're a member of an email group and receive messages sent to the group address in your mailbox, you may want to add the group address to your safe senders and recipients list.
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There may be junk email filters on the server that hosts your mailbox that will screen messages before they reach your mailbox. Even if the sender or recipient of a message is in your safe senders and recipients list, it may be filtered out by the server before it reaches your mailbox.
