Use the Report Message button in Outlook to report junk and phishing messages. Reporting these emails helps the university protect your data and teaches the Microsoft filters to catch spam and suspicious email before it arrives in your inbox.
The Report Message button is included with Outlook on the web, Outlook for iOS and Android, and compatible versions of the Outlook desktop email client. Junk includes spam messages that advertise unwanted products. When reported, these will be sent to your Junk Email folder, and the sender will be added to the Blocked Senders List. Phishing messages are an attempt to get you to click on a suspicious link or disclose login information or other personal data. These will be moved to your Deleted Items folder and reported to the university's IT Security team. Learn more about how to detect phishing.
Report a message in Outlook
- Select the suspicious or junk message, and under the Home tab, click the Report Message button.
- Select the type of message you are reporting.
- Select Report Phishing to ensure a suspicious email is reported to the university's IT Security team and deleted properly.
- Select Report Junk if it is an unwanted spam email.
You can also right-click an email in the index to see Report options in the menu.
Not Junk?
The Not Junk options is for messages that came from a trusted source and were filtered to your Junk Email folder by mistake. If you find an email in your Junk Email folder that is not spam, click the Report button from the Junk folder and select "Not Junk" to mark it as a legitimate email, move the message to your Inbox, add the sender to the Safe Senders List, and report the false positive to help IT Services improve spam filters.