How to Create Office 365 Rule to Turn off Spam Filtering

Joe Engelking

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Often times it’s easier to just turn off Spam Filtering than it is to ask users to keep adding people to Whitelists, so this is how you can create an Office 365 rule to bypass spam filtering

 

Steps to Bypass Spam Filtering in Office 365

 

  • Login to Office 365 as ad admin
  • Go to Exchange Admin Center
  • Go to Classic Exchange admin center
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  • Go to Mail flow
  • Go to RULES and then Add Rule
  • See the image below or follow these steps (is white against white background so may be hard to see)
  • Set settings to Apply this rule if ‘APPLY TO ALL MESSAGES’
  • Do the Following – Set the spam confidence level SCL to – ‘bypass spam filtering’
  • Click SAVE
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    set the rule to look like this

     

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