Title

Disable the feature of adding recipients of sent eMail to the 'save sender's list. (Cat II impact)

Discussion

Sometimes users will send e-mail messages to request that they be taken off a mailing list. If the e-mail recipient is then automatically added to the Safe Senders List, future e mail messages from that address will no longer be sent to the users Junk E-mail folder, even if it would otherwise be considered junk. By default, recipients of outgoing messages are not added automatically to individual users' Safe Senders Lists. However, users can change this configuration in the Outlook 2007 user interface.

Check Content

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 -> Tools \ Options -> Preferences -> Junk E-mail “Add e-mail recipients to users' Safe Senders Lists” will be set to “Disabled”. Procedure: Use the Windows Registry Editor to navigate to the following key: HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Mail Criteria: If the value JunkMailTrustOutgoingRecipients is REG_DWORD = 0, this is not a finding.

Fix Text

The policy value for User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 -> Tools \ Options -> Preferences -> Junk E-mail “Add e-mail recipients to users' Safe Senders Lists” will be set to “Disabled”.

Additional Identifiers

Rule ID: SV-18655r1_rule

Vulnerability ID: V-17558

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