what happens if email is mislabeled as phishing

Melissa Rogers 20 Reputation points
2026-05-18T20:13:05.0233333+00:00

What happens if an email is mislabeled as phishing. Where does it go?

Outlook | Web | Outlook on the web for business | Security
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2026-05-18T20:13:17.4933333+00:00

In Outlook on the web, when a message is identified as phishing, Outlook treats it as junk and moves it out of the Inbox into junk-related handling so it does not appear as a normal message. Phishing detection in Outlook uses features such as spoof intelligence in Exchange Online Protection to verify the sender and mark malicious messages as junk email.

If a message is suspicious but not deemed malicious, Outlook marks the sender as unverified (for example, showing a ? in the sender image or a “via” tag) instead of fully classifying it as phishing, so it remains visible but clearly flagged as suspicious.


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