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email recieving problem from certain domains

My 2010 Exchange server has been blocking email from several domains such as army.mil and fbi.gov.  I do not have an edge server.  How can I make sure email from these domains is not blocked and does not end up in junk email?
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Are you using any anti-spam hardware/software, or just the Microsoft Intelligent Message Filtering? Also is it being blocked from coming into the exchange server completely, or is it at user end? being blocked means it would never end up in junk email, as it was bounced on the firewall or anti spam engine.

You would need to provide info on where the emails are being bounced.
(smtp, firewall, anti spam, exchange, local email client)

If (From what I presume) the block happens on exchange, check and configure your content filtering properties. You can allow all mail send to a specific recipient to be "whitelisted" Spam filtering should preferably be done via another server/spam gateway. (Or more safely, use custom words to configure the filter agent)

Using Exceptions Tab in Exchange:
* Don't filter messages sent to the following recipients In this field, type the full SMTP address of a recipient in your organization and then click Add.
 To change a recipient address that you have previously added, select the address and click Edit.
 To remove a recipient address that you have previously added, select the address and click Remove icon

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124490.aspx 

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The above works even easier. Do note it could allow spoofed mails through as well. Use your anti spam server to prevent those if you have one.
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I put in the fix from cmartell and the emails are coming through fine now but it seems to have caused another problem.  They come in but they are going into the junk email folder now even though we added them to the safe senders list.  Any ideas on that?
Do you have any spam filtering other than what is built into Exchange?  It may be flagging the emails
That gets you back to some customizing. Configure the scl threshold in exchange. And add a custom word rule http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124739.aspx

Junk email could also be client side. If you mark the recipients domain in outlook as safe, does that resolve the issue? Go into outlook, right click the message in their junk mail and via junk email option, mark fenders domain as safe.
Sorry. Posted per mistake. Ignore client side. Unlikely that's the issue. Configuration scl in IMF and all should work fine
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What is a good setting for SCL in IMF?
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I have attached a word document with a picture of my current scl settings.  thanks for your help guys!
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I really got to read my posts before I push submit. Sorry for that. SCL rating 6 is not 90.50% legit, but 90.50% NOT legit. So highly likely to be junked. So try 6 or 5. If still no go, manually drop it a little more.
ummm.  I provided the solution to unblock the domains.
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I screwed up and hit the wrong button.  How can I fix it so you get credit too?
True cmartell. Yours was a direct fix to that part. Mine would have worked by unblocking anything send to the recipient, which inderect would have resulted in the domains being allowed through to that user.

But yours was more onto the spot. However the filtering for junk still needs to be set. IFM is not that smart. So would guess yours is the faster and easier solution, mine perhaps an assist instead. Either way bbonner got his questions answered, thats all that matters to me :)
Not sure if you can re-open it somehow. I could not even delete or edit my mis posts. Check with expert-exchange help maybe :)
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Both gentlemen contributed greatly in the resolution of this problem.  Thanks!