Mac Mail on Exchange going to Junk on Windows?

neil_g · 3 Jun 2009 at 15:10

bit of an odd one, we have a mixed client network of windows and mac all sending mail through exchange 2003.

now for some reason the mail sent by some macs is going straight to the junk mail on our outlook 2007 clients. despite them all being internal and all on the same domain etc etc.

im assuming this might be as the macs use SMTP and IMAP theyre treated as external (??). now before i go and set up a new group policy for outlook to ignore all "junk" from ourdomain.co.uk addresses am i missing something obvious?

neil_g · 4 Jun 2009 at 08:47

its the internal SMTP protocol. ignore the bit where i was assuming it was being handled as external mail, i was thinking out loud lol

neil_g · 4 Jun 2009 at 09:47

so basically we have to add the addresses into Outlook via group policy (our Sophos spam filters ignore the messages and let them through).

neil_g · 5 Jun 2009 at 16:04

not very well, hence its turned on lol

neil_g · 8 Jun 2009 at 11:47

unfortunately as much as i would like to replace it, i cannot see it being approved financially.

anyway, just looking at rolling out safelist via group policy. installed the Outlook template, enabled "specify path to safe senders list" and entered the path:

\\server\netlogon\macusers.txt

but it does not work. the other junk mail options go through okay to the client, just not the list.

any bright ideas?