X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL ignored

[jkupski]

I am having difficulty working with a new content filter we have just put into place. Corporate policy says that we should deliver all mail to the user, properly tagged, instead of quarantining them. My thought was to automatically toss all tagged mail into the user's junk mail folder. To this end, I have set up a transport rule. Once the mail is handed over from the gateway to Exchange, the rule sets X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL to 8 if the message begins with "[SPAM] -". The rule is working fine (verified by inspecting message headers).

I am testing this with my account only at present. The Junk E-Mail setting in OWA is on, and I have run "set-mailbox -SCLJunkEnabled $True -SCLJunkThreshold 7" in powershell. Still, spam is being delivered to my inbox instead of the junk email folder.

Any ideas? My fallback position here is to use some rules at the mailbox level, and move the messages on receipt, but I'd rather not manage this on a per-mailbox basis when I should be able to centralize.

 

[58sniper]

Do you have any antispam agents enabled?

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[jkupski]

No, there are no anti-spam agents enabled... content filtering is being done by GFI MS/ME on another host. Based on my research (specifically, this post from the exchange team blog

http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2009/11/13/453205.aspx)

they shouldn't be required.

Interestingly enough, when I came in this morning, there was no spam in my inbox, and all of it was in the junk email folder. I don't know if the problem is resolved, or if the Outlook filter moved this for other reasons, but I will watch it for a day or two and see.

Consistency is a really wonderful thing.

 

[jkupski]

Followup to the above: it still drops some spam in the inbox.