Email filtering and quarantine - Microsoft Defender
From 8/1/26, we switched our email spam/phishing filtering service from Appriver to Microsoft Defender. As a result, you may receive daily emails alerting you to email held in quarantine that look different. As we should have heightened suspicion of different emails alerts, we wanted to confirm that these new alert emails are legitimate. Here is what the daily emails will look like if you have email filtered into quarantine –
How you can tell this specific notification email is legitimate:
- No external email warning banner
- Sender and Reply address is noreply@ssyaf.org
- Branded with our SSYAF logo
- Hovering over the “Review Message” link shows it goes to the domain “security.microsoft.com”
- You can review your messages subject and sender in these emails, most will be high confidence spam/phishing.
- You can review, release and request allow listing for legitimate emails caught from the link provided.
- You will also notice that most bulk/junk email will filter to your “Junk Email” folder in Outlook
How to check your email quarantine at any time:
- If you are waiting on an email and you suspect it might be caught in the email filter, first check your “Junk Email” folder in Outlook, then you can check your email quarantine at –
https://security.microsoft.com/quarantine
Reporting phishing
Reporting missed phishing emails has not changed. Please note that reporting phishing that is not caught by our email filters should still be reported in the same way, by clicking Report --> Report Phishing –
