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
    2015-05-27T14:33:42+00:00

    In typical 'Microsoft' fashion, they have decided they know more about your needs than you do, so there is no way to disable the filters. 

    What you need is a workaround.

    Create a new rule that says If Sender contains: "a" OR "e" OR "i" OR "o" OR "u"  then move message to the inbox.

    There's a good chance that any sender will contain a vowel. 

    Unfortunately, you can't simply use "@" because the great and all-knowing system won't accept is as "valid text." 

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    On second thought, forget it.  After extensive testing it seems the message rules only work about 20% of the time.  Any mail from a real message server is dumped in the junk bin regardless of contents.

    Thanks Microsoft.  You've done it again.  Created a system that's both free and worthless.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-01T14:32:37+00:00

    For those of you that are using Office 365, the following document has steps to disable the Microsoft spam filter.  Skip down to page 6.  FYI, I have not tried this.  I am in research mode before I move a bunch of users over to Office 365.

    McAfee Spam Filter with Office 365

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-03-31T20:06:20+00:00

    I'm ditching outlook over this, even though I use WP. This is ridiculous! Only useless replies of http://answers.microsoft.com moderators top this. I'm currently investigating a cheap plan at https://www.fastmail.com/ and with the available alias options there I don't see myself sticking with outlook.com even as a one time junk email. I started recommending outlook.com to my friends to drag them off gmail but I'll no longer do so.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-04T18:27:58+00:00

    This is true for normal Spam. In our case we generate our own Spam by forwarding form a Website and partially Spoofing the senders eMail from a Textbox (so we can reply directly via eMail). But good you found a solution for most users, thank you!

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