Spam filter in hotmail not working.

That is exactly what happened and this jas been a problem since then.

I wish I could have a rule that forwards all this junk to Hotmail and then maybe they'll take the spam filter more seriously.

Exactly!

So, before I bail out of this thread, I wanted to report a few things and hopefully some of it will help others who are looking for answers:

1. I've successfully ported my aunt's email usage from Hotmail to Gmail. Very little spam showing up in Gmail, and it's a wonderful relief. While the porting process is a bit tedious, it was a great time to go over all the email she was receiving and to see what emails she wanted to receive at her new Gmail account. We dropped some businesses, and some personal email contacts, from the move. The rest we notified them of the new email address.
2. After I ported from Hotmail to Gmail, I played with some account settings to see what worked back in Hotmail. One of the most effective solutions I found was to set up some rules to identify the few remaining emails she should be getting in her inbox. The rule after that was to move every other arriving email into the 'Junk mail' folder. Big difference!! What I do now is review the Junk mail folder every now and then to see if anything worthwhile was snagged - if it was, I add the value to the first rule in the ruleset, and then gently remind the person they need to switch to the new Gmail address for contact. This is very easy for us as she is getting very little at the Hotmail address, so it would be a much bigger task to do for someone who intends on remaining on Hotmail, but it isn't impossible. The one risk I see is that businesses very often will change email sending addresses, and you may have new businesses and contacts who want to email you, so you may not catch and keep some important stuff initially in the Inbox, but depending on how bad this issue is for you, you may want to consider it.

Here's a screenshot of the rules I set up. Please note:

1. First rule is to forward the daily OneDrive Photo memory email to the new Gmail account.
2. Second rule is to move any new message from each of the redacted email addresses to the Inbox, and to stop processing any more rules.
3. Third rule is to move any remaining inbound message to the Junk Email folder, where you can review it at your leisure. If you find an email that should be in the second rule, note that you'll have to add that email address manually - clicking on the 'not junk mail' option when reviewing email in the junk email folder WON'T add it to this rule.

Good luck with the issues!

It's so bad! I get spam in my inbox that is new to my inbox but we sent 3 days ago. It's like Microsoft takes 3 days to decide if it's spam and then sends it through anyway. It's obviously spam!