What the heck happend to the EXCLUSIVE setting in Outlook - I'm getting Russian **** in my inbox!

Anonymous
2020-01-17T18:25:09+00:00

Just started getting Russian women and male body part emails in my inbox.  I used to have exclusive setting checked.  Where in the heck did that go???  I see that in 2013 lots of people had issues with unwanted spam in their inboxes.  They were told to set exclusive settting.  I really wish Microsoft would quit pushing me to go to gmail!

* Original title: What the heck happend to the EXCLUSIVE setting in Outlook - I'm getting Russian cr** in my inbox!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-19T17:49:45+00:00

    I have had the same problem. I too have been receiving escalating numbers of junk email but all would be directed into my Junk Email folder.  This has worked very well until several days ago when I started to receive 3 to 4 junk messages in my inbox each hour, sometimes more. Blocking contacts is ineffective as the number of senders is infinite - it is unhelpful to use this feature for this problem.  What is strange is this system is normally very effective but suddenly, it has started to fail.  I recall this happening in a similar pattern several years ago.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-19T17:43:25+00:00

    Same thing here the last couple of days. Junk mail rule still set to exclusive yet a lot of junk coming to inbox. Bill Gates wants to sell you a service so he can donate your money to all his leftie causes.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-01-19T17:10:19+00:00

    Same thing is suddenly happening to me.  Junk mail is now going to inbox

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-01-19T16:30:51+00:00

    Both filters you mention are already (and have always been) check marked.  Microsoft/Outlook support is

    worthless when searching for an answer to address the problem.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-01-19T16:12:26+00:00

    I am getting slammed now with spam in my inbox!  Ive made no setting changes . Yes some is going into junk but hardly everything . Very frustrating . Feels like an invasion .

    Same here!  It started yesterday.  Very little is going to junk mail.  Most comes into my inbox.  SO frustrating!

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