Microsoft recently announced that on November 1, 2016, they will stop generating updates for Microsoft Exchange's "SmartScreen" spam filters used in Microsoft Exchange Server and the Outlook (Windows) desktop client. Read more about it here.
What does this mean? This is probably a good thing. These were primarily content-related filters and content filtering isn't really "where it's at" when it comes to best practices with regard to spam filtering nowadays. I believe that this ultimately will drive users to newer solutions that are probably going to be more focused on sending reputation, meaning that us deliverability and email technology-related folks will eventually no longer have to deal with Outlook desktop client spam folder issues, which were often a confusing outlier when reviewing email deliverability results.
Microsoft recently announced that on November 1, 2016, they will stop generating updates for Microsoft Exchange's "SmartScreen" spam filters used in Microsoft Exchange Server and the Outlook (Windows) desktop client. Read more about it here.
What does this mean? This is probably a good thing. These were primarily content-related filters and content filtering isn't really "where it's at" when it comes to best practices with regard to spam filtering nowadays. I believe that this ultimately will drive users to newer solutions that are probably going to be more focused on sending reputation, meaning that us deliverability and email technology-related folks will eventually no longer have to deal with Outlook desktop client spam folder issues, which were often a confusing outlier when reviewing email deliverability results.
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