Office 365 Distribution Group - Do not send to originator

[scottay]

Hi all,

A client of mine is on O365 and they have asked me how to stop the email sending to themselves when they send to the group. For example, John is a member of the Staff group, when John email Staff he gets the email along with everyone else in the group. John doesn't want to receive the email...

This is simple in Google Apps, but in an hour of Googling and researching I can't seem to find a solution for O365. Anyone figure out a way to do this?!

Thanks!

 

[Mokester]

As far as I know you can't in Exchange. Never been a problem...I'm surprised this is an issue for him...in over 10 years, don't think I've ever had someone complain about this.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Create a rule in outlook to automatically delete email when both he is the sender and the distribution list is the recipient.

 

[johnrobert]

Why not just remove himself from group list or am I missing something

 

[altrenda]

Create a rule in outlook to automatically delete email when both he is the sender and the distribution list is the recipient.

This is the easiest solution.

Why not just remove himself from group list or am I missing something

What if he wants to receive messages from other members of the group?

 

[scottay]

Thank you all for your replies.

Creating the rule in Outlook worked like a charm! I was hoping for a global method so I could do it once instead of on each account, but at least that works. Thank you.

@johnrobert
He needs to be a member of the group, he just doesn't like his own email coming to him when he sends to the group.



Edit:
I figured I'd post my solution here since I scoured the web trying to find a solution. Hopefully it'll help someone else! This applies to the online version of Outlook, but I'm sure the logic is the same in the desktop software.

1. From Outlook, click the gear and click Options.
2. Go to Organize Email
3. Under Inbox Rules, click the '+'
4. Select Create a New Rule for Arriving Messages
5. Name it whatever you want.
6. Under "When the message arrives, and:" select "If it was received from"
------- Mine was messing up at this point. If it opens a blank screen, close that screen. Next to "It was received from" there will now be blue letters that say "*Select people." You'll want to click on that to bring up the search window. Also, I had to do this in Internet Explorer.
7. In the search box, search for <Your Name>. When it comes up, double click it to add it to the "From" line. Click OK.
8. Toward the bottom, click More Options. Now you can click the option to "Add Condition" to the "When the message arrives" section.
9. Hover over "It was sent or received" and select "Sent to." (See my note above it you get a blank window)
10. In the search box, search for <Group Name>. Double click it and click OK.
11. Under "Do the following" hover over "Move, copy or delete" and select "Delete the message."

 

[Mokester]

If that works for what you want, O365 is based on Exchange 2013. There is a downloadable powershell that you can use to CLI manage your O365 instance. All creating a rule in OWA does is create a user level email rule on the server.

Hypothetically, you could apply a rule to the domain provided you search for the PS command to do so since 2013 GUI for exchange just executes PS commands. I've never done it before but as long as it isn't a feature blocked by MS, it should work to apply globally. Just a thought.

 

[scottay]

Cool, food for thought, thank you!

They only have 9-10 users, so I'm not terribly worried about it for this job. That said, if may be worth looking into for future, bigger clients.