What is a mail flow rule?
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Mail flow rules (also known as transport rules) have actions that define what you wish to do to messages that satisfy the rule’s requirements. You may make a rule that sends messages from particular senders to a moderator or adds a disclaimer or customized signature to all outgoing messages, for example.
How do I track mail flow?
Under mail flow, go to “message trace“. Now, you can create a new trace. Select the time interval during which you want to trace your messages. If you select “Custom” from the “Date range”, you can specify time zone, start date and time, and end date time.
How long does it take for mail flow rules to work?
After you create or modify a mail flow rule, it can take up to 30 minutes for the new or updated rule to be applied to messages.
How do transport rules work?
The main difference is transport rules take action on messages while they’re in transit, and not after the message is delivered to the mailbox. Transport rules contain a richer set of conditions, exceptions, and actions, which provides you with the flexibility to implement many types of messaging policies.
What does blocked by mail Flow mean?
If you don’t want certain people in your organization to send or receive attachments greater than 10 Megabytes, you can set up a mail flow rule to block messages with attachments of this size. In this example, all messages sent to or from the organization with attachments greater than 10 Megabytes are blocked.
How far back can a message trace go?
90 days
Message trace data is available for the past 90 days. If a message is more than 7 days old, you can only view the results in a downloadable .
What are transport rules?
Transport rules are similar to the Inbox rules that are available in Outlook and Outlook Web App. The main difference is transport rules take action on messages while they’re in transit, and not after the message is delivered to the mailbox.
What is test with policy tips?
Test with Policy Tips: This turns on the rule, and any Policy Tip actions (Notify the sender with a Policy Tip) will be sent, but no actions related to message delivery will be performed. DLP is required to use this mode. To learn more, see Policy Tips.