Notification from the USN email quarantine
A notification from the USN email quarantine may look something like this:
As the example shows, this is a notification about a "spam" email, and there are two buttons one can use:
- Review Message
Use this button to open the email quarantine page and have a closer look at the email. - Release
If you are already sure that this is a valid email and you want to release it to your mailbox, use this button.- For some types of email (e.g. "High Confidence Phish" and "Malware"), you will instead see a button called "Request Release". If you use this button, an administrator must also approve the request to release the email.
The email quarantine page
The address to the email quarantine page is https://security.microsoft.com/quarantine. One can open this page any time, there is no need to wait for a notification email (those come app. once per day). If you are expecting an email and it does not show up in your mailbox, you can check the email quarantine page.
If you click on "Review Message" in the notification email from the USN email quarantine, your browser opens and you are asked to log in with your USN account if you are not logged in already in the browser.
You will then see the email quarantine page, where you will see your email quarantine (emails where you are a recipient), and the details about the email in question will open on the right side.
Here you can see more informaton about the email, such as which email policy blocked the email, and why. In this example, it was the anti-spam policy that blocked it, and the reason was "Spam".
You have a button to release the message, and you can also
- show the message header. This is for more advanced users.
- open a preview of the email content
- delete the email from the quarantine
NB! When you release emails from the email quarantine you should be quite sure that the emails are legitimate emails that you actually want to release to your mailbox!