Report Message in Outlook : When it comes to identifying potentially hazardous email communications, Microsoft Outlook excels. Communications like SPAM, Phishing, and what Microsoft refers to as false-positive email.(Microsoft office 2021)
The current Outlook filters continue to fail to stop spammers and phishers from sending you these email messages. In order to ensure that it does not miss these communications, Microsoft now gives you, the user, the option to make these filters more tougher.
Add-in for “Report Message”
As a component of Microsoft 365, Outlook gives you the option to report, or send a message to Microsoft, any fraudulent messages you may have received, such as SPAM or phishing. This tool is the “Report Message” Add-in.
How to Use the “Report Message” Add-in
Choose a suspicious email message from your inbox that you wish to report to Microsoft.
Then, use the Report Message dropdown arrow on the Outlook Home ribbon to view your choices:
You should choose Options as your initial action. By choosing whether to classify an item as Junk, Phishing, or Not Junk, you may choose how your communications will be handled. When you choose Choices, the following action options are shown:
Choose the reporting process you want to use. Your choice will serve as the default. If you want to modify it for each individual message, you must first choose the choices, alter them, and then decide whether to classify the message as junk mail or fraudulent.
If Microsoft mistakenly designated anything as junk mail but you are certain it is not, use the Not Junk function. If you go to Outlook’s Junk folder and choose the item you wish to label as Not Junk, it will be returned to your Inbox.
Get Outlook and install the Report Message Add-in.
Go backstage in the Outlook desktop program by clicking the File tab in the top left corner:
To manage add-ins, click the button labeled “Manage” in the backstage.
You will be required to sign in to your Microsoft 365 account in order to utilize this function, as it is exclusive to that service. As soon as you have successfully signed in, the Add-ins for Outlook will be shown on your computer. You may either search for it or browse through the page to discover the ‘Report Message’ Add-in that is displayed here:
You are going to get a popup that pops up asking you to confirm that you agree to the terms of the license and the privacy policy. To proceed, please click the Continue button if you are in agreement:
Another window will display to verify that you have successfully integrated the Report Message Add-in into Outlook. Choose the button labeled “Dismiss”:
You are now prepared to use the ‘Report Message’ option that is available in Outlook.
