Blocked Emails to Trash

Hi @Leigh

I understand how frustrating it would be to manage hundreds of blocked emails individually.

In Outlook, messages from blocked senders are automatically moved to the Junk Email folder rather than directly to Trash/Deleted Items. You can remove them in bulk by opening Junk Email and selecting Delete all. Messages in this folder are also automatically deleted after 30 days.

To reduce the number of entries you need to add, you can block an entire domain instead of adding each sender separately under Settings > Mail > Junk email > Blocked senders and domains.

Before emptying the folder, please review it briefly in case a legitimate email was filtered there.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any further updates, thanks.

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@Leigh said

Is there a way to make my blocked emails go automatically to my trash folder without doing one at a time?

As has already been noted, there is no automatic way to delete emails from your Junk folder. But there are two manual methods you can try to filter out the "known garbage" so you have fewer messages to look thru for any that might be legitimate.

Run Rule Now on the Junk folder

See the Answer by "Hornblower409 Apr 18, 2026" in
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5863133/junk-phishing-emails-from-ending-in-online-rule-do

Select and Mass Delete

See the Answer by "Hornblower409 on Nov 1, 2025 in
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5541361/autoworkscoll-com-is-the-latest-abusive-domain-sen?page=2#answers

There are also two Feature Request, to give users more control over the Junk folder, that you might want to Vote for and Comment on.

Truly blocking a sender
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/fcafdbe4-a053-f011-95f3-7c1e5299279a

Run Rules Automatically on mail delivered to the Junk Folder
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/7b8da674-f259-f111-89e7-7c1e52b8a25f

(You must "Sign In" at the top right of the Feedback page before you can vote).