Is there any way to disable spam filter completely?

Anonymous
2012-08-10T11:28:23+00:00

Is there any way to disable junk-mail/spam filtering completely in Outlook.com? I'd prefer my Windows client to handle this locally, thus everything I receive to my @outlook.com address should be going into Inbox.

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Anonymous
2013-09-14T11:17:47+00:00

You are correct.  It should be contains.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-26T23:26:21+00:00

    Are you sure you can even match fragments like this? I know the search function is only for whole words, I can only imagine the rules are much the same (and it seems that way so far), although I hope someone from Microsoft can confirm or deny this.

    As great as it is that we finally have multi-action and multi-condition filters, they giveth with one hand and taketh with the other. We have the aforementioned flaw that lets spammers get away with 'camel casing' tactics, we have the missing starts with/ends with/is/does not contain capabilities, and of course the recipient-related issues.

    From what I can tell, this new option, unlike the To/Cc system we had before the update, only works for the recipient name! When I put in an address, the mail it would apply to gets ignored completely, whereas if it involves the name it should do what I expect. Now you might be thinking "hmm, that sounds pretty useless"... and it is. It really, really is.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-10-24T12:25:32+00:00

    DeathStryke - Oh, jeez...  Well, none of the other suggestions work, so I'll give yours a try.  UFB.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-10-24T11:38:20+00:00

    Is there any way to disable junk-mail/spam filtering completely in Outlook.com? I'd prefer my Windows client to handle this locally, thus everything I receive to my @outlook.com address should be going into Inbox.

    Yes, there is, oh god this was painful to read, I feel you.

    Here you go :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-10-16T15:32:13+00:00

    I agree with RR167, this should be an extremely simple task to disable junk filtering. I have email forwarding set up but anything outlook deems junk doesn't get sent to my forwarding email address, has anyone found a workaround yet?

    Hi,

    There is one workaround. Its easy and simple.

    You need to go to:

    http://mail.google.com

    Click Sign UP

    Fill blank fields

    Be happy to have mailbox with 15 GB space on it and no spam filter problems.

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