Enable the Content Filter Agent

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Enable the Content Filter Agent

When the Content Filter agent is enabled on a computer, the Content Filter agent filters all messages that come through all Receive connectors on that computer. Only messages that come from external sources are filtered. External sources are defined as non-authenticated sources that are considered anonymous Internet sources.

As a best practice, you should not filter messages from trusted partners or from inside your organization. When you run anti-spam filters, there is always a chance that the filters will detect false positives. To reduce the chance of mishandling legitimate e-mail messages, you should enable anti-spam agents to run only on messages from potentially untrusted and unknown sources.

The Content Filter agent is enabled for external messages. The following steps demonstrate how to enable or disable the Content Filter agent by using the Exchange Management Console or the Exchange Management Shell.

To use the Exchange Management Console to enable or disable the Content Filter Agent

  1. Open the Exchange Management Console on the Edge Transport server.
  2. In the console tree, click Edge Transport.
  3. In the work pane, click the Anti-Spam tab, and then select Content Filtering.
  4. In the action pane, click Enable or Disable as appropriate.

To use the Exchange Management Shell to enable or disable the Content Filter Agent

To enable the Content Filter agent, run the following command: <pre IsFakePre="true" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Set-ContentFilterConfig -Enabled $true</pre>

To disable the Content Filter agent, run the following command: <pre IsFakePre="true" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Set-ContentFilterConfig -Enabled $false</pre>