View Anti-Spam Stamps in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

You can use Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Office Outlook 2007 to view the anti-spam stamps applied to an e-mail message. Anti-spam stamps are functionality in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 that helps the messaging administrator diagnose spam-related problems by applying diagnostic metadata, or stamps, such as sender-specific information, puzzle validation results, and content filtering results, to messages as the messages pass through the anti-spam features that filter inbound messages from the Internet.

Looking for other management tasks related to managing anti-spam and antivirus features? Check out Managing Anti-Spam and Antivirus Features.

Prerequisites

• You have a mailbox to which you have owner rights.

• You have received messages to this mailbox from the Internet.

• You have reviewed Managing Anti-Spam and Antivirus Features.

• You have read Understanding Anti-Spam Stamps.

Use Outlook 2010 to view anti-spam stamps

The user account you use needs to be assigned Owner permissions on the mailbox before you can perform this procedure.

1. In Outlook 2010, on a client computer, in the Mail view, double-click a message to open it.

2. In the Tags section of the ribbon toolbar, click the Options icon to display the message Properties dialog box.

3. In the Properties dialog box, in the Internet headers section, use the scroll bar to view the anti-spam stamps as shown in the following figure.

   Anti-spam stamps in Outlook 2010

   

Use Outlook 2007 to view anti-spam stamps

The user account you use needs to be assigned Owner permissions on the mailbox before you can perform this procedure.

1. In Outlook 2007, on a client computer, in the Mail view, double-click a message to open it.

2. On the Message tab, in the Options group, click Message Options.

3. In the Message Options dialog box, in the Internet headers section, use the scroll bar to view the anti-spam stamps as shown in the following figure.

   Anti-spam stamps in Outlook 2007

   

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