Are you fed up with deleting spam messages in your inbox? Is your Hotmail spam filter not working? No problem! We have got solutions.
Needless to say, “Spam is hurting email and degrading life on the Internet.” The ever-increasing email spam is surely taking a toll on the online world. Internet users have expressed in an online survey that they trust email less because of spam. They, further, go on complaining that spam overpoweringly clutters the inbox while imposing deceptive, disgusting, uninvited, and offensive messages. Here are some facts and figures that you would like to take a look at –
More than 52% of email users have now less trust in the email (in general).
25% of email users believe that spam has reduced their overall use of email.
70% of email users find that spam has made the Internet quite annoying.
75% of email users are worried about not being able to stop or prevent the flow of spam.
30% of email users are bothered that the spam feature may block incoming emails.
The burden of spam is more in personal email accounts than in work email accounts. On a typical day, 54% of personal email users come across more or less 10 emails; while 10% handle more than 50.
The best way to deal with spam is to be a little judicious about entering your Hotmail email address on some random websites (while availing of their services). Since it is hard to avoid that – considering you may avail of services and information from various websites, you should contemplate on employing spam filters.
Considering that spam is a nuisance and an ever-present issue, you must ensure that your Hotmail spam filter is working fine to give you a better email experience.
But the truth is Microsoft’s Hotmail email client doesn’t have many spam filter features to keep your inbox free from unsolicited commercial emails.
Hotmail has either the Exclusive filter or the Standard filter to help you get rid of the junk emails. If these filters fail to carry out the task properly, you should know how to change Hotmail spam filters and make them work.
Use Hotmail credentials to log in.
After logging in, select the “Options” from the inbox screen (drop-down).
Click on the “More Options” entry.
Under the “Preventing Junk Email” heading, press the “Filters and reporting” option.
Under “Choose a Junk Email Filter”, click “Executive” or “Standard”.
Under the “Block Content from Unknown Senders” heading, you need to choose to either block or show attachments. When you block, this will ensure that people who are not on your safe sender’s list won’t be able to send you any message, attachments, or links.
You can then click on the “Save” button to finish.
“Can I use Gmail’s spam tool or filter to clean my Hotmail inbox?”
Well, this is not an ideal solution although there’s a way to use the spam tool of Gmail. You will have to use Gmail as a client application – opening your Hotmail webmail account with Google Mail to sort out spam-heavy inbox.
The setup is simple and straightforward.
Sign in to your Gmail account.
Go to “Settings”.
Click “Accounts and Import”.
Look for “Check mail from other accounts” and click the “Add a mail account” option.
Now, you need to enter your email address and click “Next”.
Choose either a simple POP3 connection or the Gmailify tool.
Enter your credentials and click “Add Account”.
Receive the confirmation code in your mailbox. Copy it and paste it in the Gmail screen to confirm the link-up.
This is how you can block spam messages using the superior spam management tool of Gmail.
If you need technical assistance, you should get in touch with the professionals at Hotmail Customer Support. The experienced technicians promise to get rid of any kind of tech glitch within no time.