On the Home tab, click Junk, and then click Not Junk or Mark as Not Junk. OR Open the message you wish to classify as Not Junk. If Outlook filters suspect the message may be junk, you will see the below message. The capability to report phishing is not present on the inbox but the reality is there is still mail missed by the junk filters. There is a capability to mark as spam but this is not the same thing.

Outlook 2016 for Mac (aka Outlook for Mac for Office 365) has some changes compared to Outlook for Mac 2011 in regards to Junk Email Protection. This blog post will explain how Outlook 2016 for Mac handles Junk Email Protection. Please see the previous Blog post for more information on how Outlook for Mac 2011 handles Junk Email Protection. The first item to understand is that there are two types of junk email filtering: sever-side and client-side. Server-side junk filtering takes place on the mail server (such as Exchange) as soon as email arrives in the mailbox. Client-side junk filtering takes place on the client (such as Outlook & Outlook for Mac) when the email is downloaded from the server to the client. Outlook 2016 for Mac does not provide any client-side junk mail protection for any type of account (Exchange, POP, or IMAP).

Instead, it relies solely on the mail server to perform all junk email filtering. Emails are not scanned client-side by Outlook 2016 for Mac to determine if they are junk email. Exchange servers provide server-side junk mail filtering, and most popular email providers, such as Hotmail, Outlook.com, Gmail, and Yahoo, provide server-side junk mail filtering, making client-side Outlook junk filtering redundant. It’s important to understand that junk mail filtering and blocked senders are not the same thing, although they are often used in conjunction. Junk filtering is when emails headers and content is scanned for characteristics that makes the email likely to be junk. When you add an email address to the Blocked Senders list, emails from that email address are always moved to the Junk E-Mail folder. I’ll cover and in more depth later in this blog post. Under the Outlook menu, Preferences, Junk in Outlook 2016 for Mac, you will find that there is no longer a Junk Email Protection Level setting, as there was in Outlook for Mac 2011.

This is shown in the image below. Outlook 2016 for Mac no longer has the 'Level' tab as Outlook for Mac 2011 did. Note: While Outlook for Mac 2011 did contain the Junk Email Protection Level settings, when connected to an Exchange account, it did not perform any junk email scanning. It relied solely on the Exchange server to perform all junk email filtering. Safe Senders When connected to IMAP, POP or an Exchange 2010 mailbox, Outlook 2016 for Mac allows you to add safe senders. However, safe senders are client-side only and do not synchronize to the server. Because Outlook 2016 for Mac does not perform any junk mail filtering, client-side safe senders no longer have any use. To explain further, I’ll use an example. Free antivirus for mac.