Is there any way to disable spam filter completely?

Quoting EFJohnson:

> I hope (for your sake) you aren't eventually switched over to what they have me running.  You won't like it.

That day has come, and you're right, I don't like it.  The rules are still there, but they seem to take effect after the junk mail processing, not before it, so none of those rule methods appear to work any more for bypassing the junk filter.

Also for some reason when I was migrated a few weeks ago, and my wife's account a week or two later, Microsoft decided on our behalf that we wanted to disable POP access.  Apparently a single-checkbox option was too difficult to migrate correctly to the new interface.

Given that gmail.com works so much better than Outlook.com, why use Outlook.com to handle your gmail?  I do just the opposite (on my  cell 'phones, anyway):  I use the gmail app to manage all my e-mail accounts, including the one from Outlook.  And on my PCs, I only use Outlook (the application) as my e-mail client.  That way, Outlook.com has no opportunity to hinaufgef*ck anything else.

Many people still don't realize the entire problem.  There are TWO filters in Outlook.com.  Let's call them filters A and B.  The filter A is worse.  It automatically delete some messages silently, without any notification, especially those from free accounts such as gmail.  We users don't have control on it.  The filter B, which is applied after the filter A, can be turned off using methods such as "with/without attachment."