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Thought that Trusted Sender bypassed Spam Checks
Question asked by Merle Wait - 6/3/2016 at 8:09 AM
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So running 14.5.   
Two of the inbound servers.... have email xxxx@yyy.com   as trusted sender.
Both do spam checks on them anyway....
 
I thought trusted sender bypassed spam checks??
Employee Replied
6/3/2016 at 10:28 AM
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Merle.  Spam checks are still run on trusted senders, but the results are ignored.  You should see this in the delivery logs.
Merle Wait Replied
6/3/2016 at 11:19 AM
Ok, Thanks. we were wanting to use trusted send to speed up the delivery process and reduce the load on cheeking spam
kevind Replied
6/3/2016 at 12:19 PM
Merle, check out this suggestion for speeding delivery and reducing CPU load when checking spam: http://portal.smartertools.com/community/a86864/why-not-validate-trusted-senders.aspx

Please vote for it if you haven't already. --Kevin
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