IMF and how it reactes with Outlook and OWA

[Guest]

Hey all,

wondering if you can help me on an issue I am working on. I am testing to
see how an email can get into the jumk email folder without an SCL value and
have the Junk email settings to Off. I find it to be impossible but it some
how happened.

AFter doing a rash of steps, I found that the mail was still routing to my
Junk email folder even though it was off. It looked like the IMF settings
were still taking over and routing the junk email to the junk folder like it
was supposed to.

I look in OWA and found that the Junk email settings were ON.

Now does OWA settings supercede whatever settings you have on your local
Outlook. I am trying to find an article to prove this but have run dried. I
will appreciate any help or comments on this issue. Thank you all,

Mike

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The IMF settings will override everything- it needs disabled on the exchange
server to stop it.

OWA is server side filtering - the same level of filtering you'll get if you
disable cache mode. Outlook filtering is all client side and requires cached
mode to work. This means OWA's less powerful filter runs all the time while
Outlook's setting only work when it's running.

What happens if you turn off the setting in OWA?

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[Guest]

The IMF settings will override everything- it needs disabled on the exchange
server to stop it.

OWA is server side filtering - the same level of filtering you'll get if you
disable cache mode. Outlook filtering is all client side and requires cached
mode to work. This means OWA's less powerful filter runs all the time while
Outlook's setting only work when it's running.

What happens if you turn off the setting in OWA?

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Thank you for your answer.....When I turned off the filtering on the OWA
side I ran into not having any email filtered on the client side. and all
emails with high SCL values going into the Inbox. The only way it will move a
message into the Junk mail folder is if I have the settings on High...than a
message with a high SCL value will go into the Junk mailbox.

However a customer of mine is saying that he has Juk filtering off and an
email was received in his Junk mail folder. I havent gotten to verify his OWA
settings. But will be doing so once I get his uid and pwd. So in my
perspective when Im doing testing...if the OWA setting is on to filter Junk
email - it will will still route email to the junk email folder even though
Outlook is saying not to.

Please let me know of any suggestions and if someone can find an article
stating this.

- Mike