How to prevent pictures from being blocked in Outlook for emails from a specific sender?

blinkyjesus 6 Reputation points
2023-01-06T19:29:56.21+00:00

I know that this can be done via group policy and powershell, but i'm hoping there's something in Exchange Online (or elsewhere in 365) that can do it more simply.
We want to add/whitelist a single external address. The only requirement is that pictures in emails from this sender won't be blocked in Outlook.
Normally a user would just add an address to the safe senders list in Outlook, and then that senders emails will never have their pictures blocked.
Can this be accomplished on the backend somehow, or are we limited to group policy or powershell?
Thanks in advance

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  1. Michael Taylor 50,586 Reputation points
    2023-01-06T19:55:16.043+00:00

    Outlook uses the safe sender list for this. You need to add the email address(es) that you trust to this list and then it won't block them.

    I'm unsure what your concern is, and I'm not an Exchange admin, but the docs say you can set all this up in Exchange Online Protection as discussed here. It appears there is a UI for that.

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  2. ChristyZhang-MSFT 22,071 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2023-01-09T02:50:23.57+00:00

    Hi @blinkyjesus ,

    Welcome to our forum!

    According to your description, i notice that you want to add/whitelist a single external address and hope to do it in Exchange Online (or elsewhere in 365). Please refer to this article and try the steps:
    Create safe sender lists in EOP

    hope to help you!

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