Junk e mail options dialog box

The Junk E-mail Options dialog box in Microsoft Outlook allows you to configure how Outlook handles junk email messages. Here's a breakdown of the options:

Options

  1. Safe Senders: Add email addresses or domains to the Safe Senders list to ensure that emails from these addresses are not marked as junk.
  2. Blocked Senders: Add email addresses or domains to the Blocked Senders list to prevent emails from these addresses from being delivered to your inbox.
  3. Safe Recipients: Add email addresses or domains to the Safe Recipients list to ensure that emails sent to these addresses are not marked as junk.
  4. Blocked Recipients: Add email addresses or domains to the Blocked Recipients list to prevent emails sent to these addresses from being delivered to your inbox.
  5. Permitted Senders: Add email addresses or domains to the Permitted Senders list to allow emails from these addresses to bypass the junk email filter.
  6. Trustworthy Senders: Add email addresses or domains to the Trustworthy Senders list to allow emails from these addresses to bypass the junk email filter.
  7. Never Block Senders: Add email addresses or domains to this list to prevent Outlook from ever blocking emails from these addresses.
  8. Mark as Junk: Choose how you want Outlook to mark junk email messages:
    • Move to Junk Mail folder: Move junk email messages to a separate folder.
    • Delete: Delete junk email messages.
    • Permanently delete: Permanently delete junk email messages without moving them to the Junk Mail folder.
  9. Delete read messages: Choose whether to delete read junk email messages.
  10. Delete unread messages: Choose whether to delete unread junk email messages.
  11. Report junk: Choose whether to report junk email messages to Microsoft.
  12. Report phishing: Choose whether to report phishing emails to Microsoft.

Advanced

  1. Junk Email Filter: Choose the level of junk email filtering:
    • Low: Less aggressive filtering.
    • Medium: Medium-level filtering.
    • High: More aggressive filtering.
  2. Spam Confidence Level: Adjust the confidence level for spam detection.
  3. Sender Information: Choose whether to display sender information (e.g., IP address, domain) for junk email messages.

By configuring these options, you can fine-tune your junk email filtering settings to reduce the amount of unwanted email in your inbox.