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description: Admins can learn how to allow or block email and spoofed sender entries in the Tenant Allow/Block List.
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ms.service: defender-office-365
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ms.date: 08/12/2025
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ms.date: 08/13/2025
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- ✅ <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/defender-office-365/eop-about" target="_blank">Default email protections for cloud mailboxes</a>
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- ✅ <a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/defender-office-365/mdo-about#defender-for-office-365-plan-1-vs-plan-2-cheat-sheet" target="_blank">Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and Plan 2</a>
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## Domains and email addresses in the Tenant Allow/Block List
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> [!NOTE]
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> If an email address contains special characters (such as spaces, quotes, or symbols), these characters must be URL-encoded using their UTF-8 hexadecimal representation. Failure to encode special characters may result in invalid errors when adding entries.
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> Entries for email addresses with special characters (for example, spaces, quotes, or symbols) must use UTF-8 hexadecimal encoding for the special characters. Otherwise, you might receive errors when you try to add the entries.
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> Example: To block the email address "bad+ attacker"@badattackerdomain.com, encode the special characters as follows:
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> For example, to block the email address `"bad+ attacker"@fourthcoffee.com`, encode the address as `%22bad%2B%20attacker%[email protected]`:
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> %22 represents the double quote (")
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> %20 represents the space ( )
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> - `%22` represents the double quotation marks (").
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> - `%2B` represents the plus sign (+).
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> - `%20` represents the space ( ).
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### Create allow entries for domains and email addresses
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