How to Turn On the Spam Filter in Outlook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Clean Your Inbox
Tired of spam clogging up your inbox? Spam emails are a common annoyance, but fortunately, Microsoft Outlook has built-in tools to help keep your inbox clean. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to activate and customize the spam filter in Outlook, helping you regain control over your inbox.
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Step 1: Accessing the spam filter in Outlook
- First, Open Outlook and go to the Home tab.
- Click on Junk in the toolbar.
- Select Junk Email Options from the dropdown menu.
From here you can add safe senders, safe recipients, blocked senders, and block international emails you may not want to read for example some emails may be written in an unfamiliar language and can be marked as junk and moved to the junk mail folder.
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Step 2: Changing your protection level
- No Automatic Filtering: This means that Outlook won’t filter anything. Only addresses on the Blocked Senders list will be sent to Junk.
- Low: Only the most obvious junk emails will be filtered.
- High: This filters out more junk mail but might move some legitimate emails to the Junk folder.
- Safe Lists Only: Only emails from your contacts and trusted senders will go to your inbox.
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How to ensure your important emails aren’t marked as spam:
- Log in to your Outlook.
- Select the Junk Email folder.
- Right-click the message you want to teach Outlook to mark as not junk.
- Navigate to the Report submenu.
- Select the Not Junk option.
Conclusion:
Activating and customizing the spam filter in Outlook is a simple process that can save you from the annoyance of unwanted emails. Taking a few minutes to fine-tune these settings will allow a cleaner, and more organized inbox. For more information about spam filters in Outlook or anything else Outlook-related you may need assistance with feel free to have a chat with our team.
