Junk Email GPO Troubles

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Carl

I am trying to use the Junk Email GPO Templates to specify a Safe Senders
List. I have enabled the policy, created a text file with only 1 line
"@hotmail.com" and saved it as "safe.txt" and placed it in
"\\domaincontroller\netlogon\safe.txt" and also input this path in the
"Specify path to Safe Senders list" policy.

No matter what we do, the Outlook clients do not appear to be picking up the
Safe Sender List and all email from @hotmail.com is going directly to the
Junk Email folder. To test, we have set the "Junk E-mail protection level"
to "Trusted Lists Only" within the GPO.

Everything works fine if we manually add the @hotmail.com at the client, but
the GPO should be taking care of this for us.

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks,
Carl
 
I habe exactly the same problem...

In the safe senders file I put one domain @gmx.de and safed it in the
netlogon directory, too.

When I manually add the @gmx.de at the client everything works fine.


Is there somebody who knows how to solve that problem?
Would be really great...

thanks,
Silvia
 
The GPO is missing a key setting, which I discovered by using the Custom
Maintenance Wizard procedure detailed at
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/office/2003/all/reskit/en-us/outb07.mspx
after the GPO approach didn't work. The missing registry value is
JunkMailImportLists (DWORD). To make it available to your policy object,
you'll need to modify the Outlk11.adm file to add the following policy
information. (I put it just before the POLICY "Overwrite or Append..." line
in my file.):

POLICY "Junk Mail Import List"
PART "Check to import junk mail lists" CHECKBOX
VALUENAME JunkMailImportLists
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
END POLICY

After you save the .adm file, you should be able to use the group policy
editor to set the option to import lists with this policy setting and then
configure the other related settings that control import/append and the
location of the lists to import.

Happy Junk Mail Blocking!
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue,

I have followed the instructions, but the policy still does not seem to get
propogated our users. Do you know how the settings get pushed? Should
these lists show up in the Outlook client's
Tools/Options.../Preferences/Junkemail... window at some point? I
certainly don't see any of the settings there or in the client's registry.
I have tried GPUpdate /force on the client computer as well to no avail.

Thanks,

-Paul
 
Regedit should see the policy settings propagated to the user the next time
they log onto Windows. Gpupdate should work, too. I'd check for the registry
entries in Regedit.

Then, the next time the user starts Outlook, the junk filter list will be
imported and the user will be able to see it in their own Junk E-mail
dialog.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I talked to some folks at Microsoft about this and they recommend strongly
against using GPO to push out the junk mail lists. They say use the CMW or
CIW to roll out a user preference setting instead, repeating as needed when
you need to add names or domains to the list.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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