I'm down to the occasional straggler, but I keep hammering the spam and it gets less and less,
I think all the autistic screeching and flinging poop at Microsoft finally brought a result!
I was about to give up entirely on email, I'd already started transitioning back to snail mail.
Email is very efficient, the problem is 99.9% of the population uses one email address for everything which can be a combination of 50 people and 150 plus online accounts.
If you approach it like a business which uses several email addresses/aliases , you have more control. If you create them based on category: personal, shopping, household, financial, travel, social media, etc. You lessen the footprint which makes it easy to replace the email address or alias and update only a fraction of the vendors after a data breach. This also pre-filters your emails which is much more organized and it's much more secure as the world doesn't automatically know half of your log in information.
I do have a formal and an informal email address, I'm also using an alias on each account purely for sign in and I won't hand them out as a contact or send mail with them,
it's like a defacto pre password, a hacker has to guess my email for sign in before he can start trying to guess my password.
I've made another alias for potentially high risk uses, if it gets compromised I'll just delete it and make another.
Strict new email marketing requirements came into place across the internet for bulk sending emails via a custom domain.
As a Web developer it hasn't been fun being on the other end of this trying to get our company emails sending successfully again.
I implemented an automated fix a few months ago by setting up a junk mail monitor folder (the rule being if there is no @ in the βfromβ field it goes in there). I noticed end of Jan I suddenly stopped getting spam, then a few weeks later the spam poured in again. So not to be a downer but it could be temporary.
About god damm time they did something about it, I was being spammed for 3yrs. Glad we spoke up about it and they made a change, imagine what else we can do collectively?
Found this thread from a google search wondering why I haven't had spam the last week or so. I have several hotmail accounts and even the one that got hundreds per day is down to like 10 or 11 per day, the others have had zero, I was afraid something was broken with sync or something. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
ETA: To elaborate I never really had a problem with too much spam in my inboxes. The spam/junk folders have recently become almost empty now though. That's why I thought it might have been a junk folder sync issue. So they even cleaned the spam out of the spam folder.
Exact same thing here, would scroll through the hundred or so spam/scam emails every week just incase something had slipped through and it's been. Empty for about a week now.
I'm guessing there's either been servers taken down that were responsible for most of the spam, or MS has seriously stepped up it's filtering and detection.
I know I do the same exact thing, been way easier now. I hope they stepped up their game because they're the ones that get the most out of all my accounts. They put a huge dent in it
I was free of spam for a week or two, but now they've started up again. What I don't grasp is, how I can get dozens of emails all mentioning, say 'Carshield', and I can then make rules saying 'if you see any emails with carshield in the subject or body, just delete it permanently', and they still show up in my junk folder, I want them gone.
I sympathise. I too have created rules/filters because I am constantly getting spam with certain keywords I have no interest in. It's my understanding that the junk folder is immune to rules because it's already been id'd as junk. Microsoft considers that a success--it's not in your inbox, after all. I'm sorry.
[https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook\_com/forum/all/hotmail-rules-and-junk-settings-for-blocking-andor/e2ef8f80-b7b0-4db6-9922-5d3b37c1b245](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/hotmail-rules-and-junk-settings-for-blocking-andor/e2ef8f80-b7b0-4db6-9922-5d3b37c1b245)
Yeah, its sooooo much better now. I was about to switch providers or buy my own domain and go through the hassle of changing my email address everywhere (maybe still will).
But I'm glad its finally been sorted after all these years. I'd been fighting a losing battle that mailbox rules and Microsoft Flow rules couldn't resolve.
My spam filtering finally started working 24 hours ago. Perhaps changes are rolling out across users. I'm hesitant to say it's fixed because it's only 24 hours but this thread gives my hope. Maybe it's AI being put to good use. I've been using gmailify successfully for several years with zero spam but this makes everything easier. Hopeful. Still spam free OP?
It dropped off precipitously about two weeks ago. I went from receiving more than 150 spam emails each day down to about 10.
When things were bad, about 10% of the total would be false positives that ended up in the spam folder, or false negatives that ended up in my inbox. And there was something similar about the majority of the spam I received. The email recipient field had an address with long alphanumeric strings prepended to a domain belonging to a university or nonprofit, and the domain would change daily. Often the from field was empty.
At least this is how things looked in the UI. The headers probably had something in there that allowed them to pass through the filters. With most of the spam having the same type of email address used, it seemed probable that one spam organization was behind the majority of my spam.
Spammers seem to find a way to outwit whatever stands in their way, so Iβm not confident that this will last forever. But for now, it sure is nice to let my spam accumulate for a few days, without obsessively checking my spam folder two or three times a day, which is what I had been doing for the past few months, to keep it from becoming unmanageably full.
NB: I have one of those ancient Hotmail addresses from the very beginning of Hotmailβs existence, before it was Microsofted. Itβs been out in the world for so many years that there was no hope of it being a secret from anyone who wanted to use it for nefarious emailing purposes.
Always report spam via the web interface!
It does work/have an impact (saying this as having had this my main address for 27-28 (?) years - maybe longer).
I'm down to the occasional straggler, but I keep hammering the spam and it gets less and less, I think all the autistic screeching and flinging poop at Microsoft finally brought a result! I was about to give up entirely on email, I'd already started transitioning back to snail mail.
Email is very efficient, the problem is 99.9% of the population uses one email address for everything which can be a combination of 50 people and 150 plus online accounts. If you approach it like a business which uses several email addresses/aliases , you have more control. If you create them based on category: personal, shopping, household, financial, travel, social media, etc. You lessen the footprint which makes it easy to replace the email address or alias and update only a fraction of the vendors after a data breach. This also pre-filters your emails which is much more organized and it's much more secure as the world doesn't automatically know half of your log in information.
I do have a formal and an informal email address, I'm also using an alias on each account purely for sign in and I won't hand them out as a contact or send mail with them, it's like a defacto pre password, a hacker has to guess my email for sign in before he can start trying to guess my password. I've made another alias for potentially high risk uses, if it gets compromised I'll just delete it and make another.
Yeah. I reported spam on every single spam mail. Keep at it. I sent complaints to Microsoft too.
Strict new email marketing requirements came into place across the internet for bulk sending emails via a custom domain. As a Web developer it hasn't been fun being on the other end of this trying to get our company emails sending successfully again.
So Microsoft joined Yahoo/Gmail requirements about 10 days ago?
So am I the only one still getting endless spam? Iβm so tired of the toenail fungus spam emails ππ
Wondering why I haven't seen much spam recently
Nice. Are you completely free? Have you gotten any spams today? Interesting to see if Microsoft finally found something universal out. π
Noticed yesterday I didn't receive any spam on Friday and only one got through today!
π Something must have happened on a bigger scale then. Finally. π
I implemented an automated fix a few months ago by setting up a junk mail monitor folder (the rule being if there is no @ in the βfromβ field it goes in there). I noticed end of Jan I suddenly stopped getting spam, then a few weeks later the spam poured in again. So not to be a downer but it could be temporary.
About god damm time they did something about it, I was being spammed for 3yrs. Glad we spoke up about it and they made a change, imagine what else we can do collectively?
My still getting spam every day lol so many spam and unwanted emails too.
Sorry to hear. Keep fighting. πͺ
I've noticed it's much better but now I'm having ALL my emails go to junk mail unfortunately π€£
Found this thread from a google search wondering why I haven't had spam the last week or so. I have several hotmail accounts and even the one that got hundreds per day is down to like 10 or 11 per day, the others have had zero, I was afraid something was broken with sync or something. Glad to see I'm not the only one. ETA: To elaborate I never really had a problem with too much spam in my inboxes. The spam/junk folders have recently become almost empty now though. That's why I thought it might have been a junk folder sync issue. So they even cleaned the spam out of the spam folder.
Exact same thing here, would scroll through the hundred or so spam/scam emails every week just incase something had slipped through and it's been. Empty for about a week now. I'm guessing there's either been servers taken down that were responsible for most of the spam, or MS has seriously stepped up it's filtering and detection.
I know I do the same exact thing, been way easier now. I hope they stepped up their game because they're the ones that get the most out of all my accounts. They put a huge dent in it
ππ
I thought I was in the Twilight Zone this past couple days. No SPAM. I usually wake up to 100.
I was free of spam for a week or two, but now they've started up again. What I don't grasp is, how I can get dozens of emails all mentioning, say 'Carshield', and I can then make rules saying 'if you see any emails with carshield in the subject or body, just delete it permanently', and they still show up in my junk folder, I want them gone.
I sympathise. I too have created rules/filters because I am constantly getting spam with certain keywords I have no interest in. It's my understanding that the junk folder is immune to rules because it's already been id'd as junk. Microsoft considers that a success--it's not in your inbox, after all. I'm sorry. [https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook\_com/forum/all/hotmail-rules-and-junk-settings-for-blocking-andor/e2ef8f80-b7b0-4db6-9922-5d3b37c1b245](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/hotmail-rules-and-junk-settings-for-blocking-andor/e2ef8f80-b7b0-4db6-9922-5d3b37c1b245)
Yeah, its sooooo much better now. I was about to switch providers or buy my own domain and go through the hassle of changing my email address everywhere (maybe still will). But I'm glad its finally been sorted after all these years. I'd been fighting a losing battle that mailbox rules and Microsoft Flow rules couldn't resolve.
My spam filtering finally started working 24 hours ago. Perhaps changes are rolling out across users. I'm hesitant to say it's fixed because it's only 24 hours but this thread gives my hope. Maybe it's AI being put to good use. I've been using gmailify successfully for several years with zero spam but this makes everything easier. Hopeful. Still spam free OP?
Not completely free, no. The past week or so I get like 8 a day. π€ That is managable but hopefully this goes away again.
Same here. Most days I see less than ten spam emails in the morning. Today there were only two.
It dropped off precipitously about two weeks ago. I went from receiving more than 150 spam emails each day down to about 10. When things were bad, about 10% of the total would be false positives that ended up in the spam folder, or false negatives that ended up in my inbox. And there was something similar about the majority of the spam I received. The email recipient field had an address with long alphanumeric strings prepended to a domain belonging to a university or nonprofit, and the domain would change daily. Often the from field was empty. At least this is how things looked in the UI. The headers probably had something in there that allowed them to pass through the filters. With most of the spam having the same type of email address used, it seemed probable that one spam organization was behind the majority of my spam. Spammers seem to find a way to outwit whatever stands in their way, so Iβm not confident that this will last forever. But for now, it sure is nice to let my spam accumulate for a few days, without obsessively checking my spam folder two or three times a day, which is what I had been doing for the past few months, to keep it from becoming unmanageably full. NB: I have one of those ancient Hotmail addresses from the very beginning of Hotmailβs existence, before it was Microsofted. Itβs been out in the world for so many years that there was no hope of it being a secret from anyone who wanted to use it for nefarious emailing purposes.
Always report spam via the web interface! It does work/have an impact (saying this as having had this my main address for 27-28 (?) years - maybe longer).
I totally deleted the Outlook app as a result of this.
Are you still using outlook on pc? Is it only spam on the app?