DTOO223 - Outlook - Trust EMail from senders in receiver's contact list must be enforced.

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Information

E-mail addresses in users' Contacts list are treated as safe senders for purposes of filtering junk e-mail. If this configuration is changed, e-mail from users' Contacts might be misclassified as junk and cause important information to be lost.

Solution

Set the policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Outlook 2010 -> Outlook Options -> Preferences -> Junk E-mail 'Trust E-mail from Contacts' to 'Enabled'.

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_Outlook_2010_V1R13_STIG.zip