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
    2016-02-29T15:59:34+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 :)

    haha this is a good, although not that compact,a solution!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-29T15:57:15+00:00

    HOW FUNNY 

    I see these complaints from 2012 about inefficient Spam Filter (that you cannot disable)

    is still going on almost 5 years later. 

    Thing is:

    • the filter doesn't work (every day 50% of the items in it are real messages that are not spam)
    • there is no way to turn off the filter
    • the only way to avoid this is to know in advance who is going to write you and then make them safe senders pretty hard since:
        1. Outlook on line will not add automatically addresses you correspond with like Gmail does, and
        1. I do not know who my new clients are that are writing me so how could I put them on Safe Sender, and
        1. who has the time to do all that when an algorithm could easily solve the situation

    oh well I have just gotten used to treating my Spam as a second Inbox and check it regularly;

    not exactly efficient!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-27T14:37:36+00:00

    @Wildabeast73 - As has been stated quite a few times, the two rules specifying with / without attachment still do the job just fine.  It helps to read the thread...

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-27T04:12:09+00:00

    Doesn't work anymore. Not for live.com.

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