Bowdoin's spam filters scan all emails coming into our network and move items that appear to be junk mail to your Junk folder. Other spam, or phishing attacks may stay in quarantine while others never even make it to our mail servers. You can make sure that the spam filters always deliver or always move emails from a specific address or domain to your Junk folder.
To set the junk email filter to always deliver specific emails to your inbox
To set the junk email filter to always block specific emails from going to your inbox
To set the spam filter to always deliver specific emails to your inbox
- Navigate to outlook.office.com and log in with your Bowdoin username and password.
- In the top right corner, click the gear icon (Settings).
- In the search box, type "Blocked senders and domains" and click on the result.
- Under Safe Senders and Domains, click the +Add and enter the email address that should always be delivered to your inbox then click enter. Click Save from the lower right.
To set the spam filter to always block specific emails from going to your inbox
- Navigate to outlook.office.com and log in with your Bowdoin username and password.
- In the top right corner, click the gear icon (Settings).
- In the search box, type "Blocked senders and domains" and click on the result.
- Under Block Senders and Domains will be a +Add button that will allow you to add an email you prefer to always go to your junk folder.
To Edit or update the Blocked or Safe list you have created you can click on the pencil icon to change the address or the delete icon to remove the address from the list.
Note: If you want all the emails from an organization to be blocked by the spam filter, add the domain instead of a specific email address. For example, if you want all emails from anyone at Globex to be blocked by the spam filter, add globex.com to the list of blocked senders instead of mary_johnson@globex.com.