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
    2017-10-17T09:19:31+00:00

    "Forward your message to another email provider and forget about it. "

    Even this doesn't work.  I've set Hotmail to forward ALL mail to my iCloud account but still mail goes into Hotmail Junk folder... even mail that I send to myself from the very same Hotmail account.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-17T07:53:06+00:00

    Anecdotal evidence indicates that it makes no difference. I have marked as not junk, added the senders address to safe mailing lists and I have added the senders address and domain to safe senders… yet email from these senders still gets marked as junk (sometimes).

    There APPEARS to me no rationale for the behaviour.

    I contacted Microsoft with the same issue (emails from whitelisted senders were marked as spam) and after that it stopped. I am not sure if Microsoft interfered or if I had to mark the email directly on outlook.com as "not junk". I used to mark them in outlook 365 instead.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-17T03:48:13+00:00

    Junk, spam.  Semantics.  Synonyms.  I'm pretty sure you understood the meaning of the sentence.

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  4. Brian Tillman [Outlook MVP 2007-2019] 25,915 Reputation points
    2017-10-17T03:10:58+00:00

    Outlook.com has no folder named "Spam".

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