My Outlook inbox is suddenly getting a ton of spam and I don't know how to stop it

Yup, that is the best solution. If your email has been used for years, circulating on spam lists, and has probably been part of one of the many, many, breeches over the years, the best solution is to abandon it, and get a new one. It's really hard as it has become part of your identity, and the burden of having to let your friends know, port over your data, and change your email with.... everyone! What a headache! But I think in this day and age that's going to have to part of regular email hygiene--new address every few years and now Email masking which I see Firefox has started offering. Hopefully one day we will advance as a society and get rid of this noose. Email has been an un-fun, time waster for years now.

I've been having the problem for a week now, so I'll stick around a while and see if the spam filter improves--it has in the past.

Thanks for your input.

Alan

Question. If I change my email address is there a way to send out a mass mailing to all my contacts notifying them of the new email address?

Hi,

Did you eventually find a solution to this problem.

I have been experiencing this same issue for months now and Microsoft support doesn't seem to have any successful solution,

Cheers,

Dan

It's going to depend on your new email provider, unless you send it from your outlook account, which I wouldn't recommend as it might add to the confusion. After you import your contacts to your new provider, you can then generate an email to all your contacts. In gmail for example you go to your contacts list, select everyone you want to sent to, then select envelope icon to create an email. I would cut the contacts from To: box and paste into BCC, unless it's a small group of people that know each other. There will probably be a form of that process for every email provider.