SBS 2008 – Stop Mail Being Marked as Spam in the IMF

The new anti-spam engine in SBS 2008 seems to be doing a good job on one of our customer’s sites.  However, the interface isn’t the greatest and I struggled to find a way to stop a particular email being marked as spam.  My struggle was explained when I raised a post in microsoft.private.sbsc.windowsserver.sbs – you can’t do it through the GUI, you need to use the Exchange shell (EMS).  One note about said shell, always right-click and choose ‘Run as Administrator’, certain commands, including the ones below, don’t work if you run it as a normal user.

Use the following shell command to add sender SMTP addresses to the BypassedSenders list:

Set-ContentFilterConfig -BypassedSenders foo@somedomain.com,foo2@somedomain.com

Use the following command to whitelist the sending domain:

Set-ContentFilterConfig -BypassedSenderDomains somedomain.com,someotherdomain.com

You don’t get any confirmation that the action has been taken, but you also don’t get any error message.  Use the following commands to list which users or domains have been added to the BypassedSenders lists:

Get-contentFilterConfig |fl BypassedSenders
Get-contentFilterConfig |fl BypassedSenderDomains

Thanks to Robert Li in the newsgroups for this info.

Related info:

How to Specify Recipient and Sender Exceptions for Content Filtering
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995952.aspx

Get-ContentFilterConfig
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998807.aspx

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