Hello All,

I have an Exchange 2013 environment where I have just enabled message moderation.  So far so good.  However, I would like to suppress all notifications to the moderated recipients and the sender of messages to this recipient.  I have created a transport rule that deletes all emails containing "Your message was rejected by a moderator for these recipients" which is what the system sends when a message is rejected by the moderator.  However if the moderator doesn't approve or reject a notitication, another message is sent to the sender (and maybe the moderated receipent).  I have found a good bit of MS reference material for the message (If the approver either deletes or ignores the approval message, an expiration message is sent to the sender. This happens after two days in Exchange Online, and after five days in Exchange Server 2013....# 3 in how the approval process works https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd297936.aspx)  I need to know exactly what the message says so I can create the transport rule to delete it and not bounce a message back to the sender.

I basically have 2 questions:

1. Is it possible to configure Exchange so it doesn't generate these notifications to begin with?

2. What are the contents of the various notifications sent by the system when moderating messages?  I have one listed above but don't know what else gets sent.  I need to create a transport rule to delete/redirect the message so that it's not sent to the sender, moderated recipient, etc.

I have only a few days to figure this out.  Please help.

JPC0706

Moderating messages to a distribution group?  It appears that the -SendModerationNotifications property of Set-DistributionGroup controls this.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124955(v=exchg.150).aspx

If that's not the kind of moderation you're asking about, please be more specific.

Thanks Ed,

We're moderating a recipient, not a DG. 

Thanks!

A DG is a recipient.  Recipients include distribution groups, dynamic distribution groups, mailbox users, mail users, mail contacts and mail publi

Ed, Thanks again.  In my case, today we have a single mailbox user moderated.  I don't wish for that user (or any internal or external users, sending mail to that user) to receive any moderation-related notifications.

I see the property -SendModerationNotifications is set to Always for the particular user we are moderating. 

The following text I pulled from MS documentation makes sense:

The SendModerationNotifications parameter specifies whether status notifications are sent to users when they send a message to the moderated mailbox. You can specify one of the following values:

• Always

• Internal

• Never

If you want notifications to be sent to all senders, set this value to Always.

If you want notifications to be sent only to the senders who are internal to your organization, set this value to Internal.

To disable all status notifications, set this value to Never.

However, the following note which is also part of the same material reads:

The sender is always notified if the message is rejected by the moderators, regardless of the value of this parameter.
The default value is Never.

Is the above an error? 

I need a sure way to suppresses all moderation related notifications, including expired message notices.

Thanks,

JPC0706

I must admit that I am not familiar with mailbox moderation.

The following note doesn't appear in the documentation I'm reading:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123981

I don't know what you're looking at since you didn't cite your source.

Hi JPC,

Base on my knowledge, the material what you are referring to that is only applied to the mailbox in the cloud-based service (hybrid environment).

However, in on-premises Exchange Server 2013, you should refer to the link provided by Ed:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123981

Best regards,

Thanks for the replies.  The information I cited above came from the following:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997663(v=exchg.150).aspx

How can I get a definitive answer on this stuff?  Suggestions?

Thanks,

JPC

I'll ask about the documentation inconsistency.  I would assume that it works as you assume.  Have you tested the behavior?

I ended up blocking the expiration emails by setting a transport rule to delete emails if the sender is SystemMailbox<guid>@domain. After doing this, the sender doesn't get the expiration email but the moderator does still get an email with the notification that the expiration email has been sent out.