Anybody have an Outlook Mail Account?

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I've had one for years and it's always been good. Very little spam, maybe a couple a year. I only use it for limited contacts, so not many places have it.

Last week or so, it's been several a day.

Just curious if something's changed.

 

[SKORPI0]

I've had one since the late 90s. I think it was @hotmail.com , now it's @msn.com. 2 sections , Focused and Other.

I don't use the app on the PC, but just a link with Firefox browser.
https://outlook.live.com/mail/0/. My android devices uses the Outlook app.

Still using it, besides my 2 gmail.com accounts.

 

[DigDog]

same here. the spam filter works well enough but my spam folder is enormous.

 

[dainthomas]

Mine's hotmail because I got it in 96. Have a yahoo account also from about that same time.

 

[biostud]

Yes, there's has been reports of problems with their spam filters. This is apparently not a place where they have used AI :/

 

[igor_kavinski]

Yes, there's has been reports of problems with their spam filters. This is apparently not a place where they have used AI :/

They don't want to train their AI to associate humanity with slutty gals in urgent need of quickies and boner pills.

 

[BoomerD]

Mine's hotmail because I got it in 96. Have a yahoo account also from about that same time.

My wife also uses "hotmail" as her primary email.

 

[igor_kavinski]

My wife also uses "hotmail" as her primary email.

That says stubborn right there

 

[BoomerD]

That says stubborn right there

You don't say?

She has a gmail account, we USED to have pacbell.net email accounts...till lacbell sold out to SBC. Then to someone else, and finally to AT&T.

 

[RLGL]

I've had one for years and it's always been good. Very little spam, maybe a couple a year. I only use it for limited contacts, so not many places have it.

Last week or so, it's been several a day.

Just curious if something's changed.

Change the setting for your spam filter

 

[yottabit]

The outlook mail spam filter is way too aggressive IMO, so many times I have had someone that I already had an e-mail thread going with, reply directly and have it go to the junk folder. Almost lost a job offer once because of that

Forgot to mention: constantly un-flagging messages from my insurance agent and bank as spam and it doesn’t seem to learn. I don’t really want to straight up whitelist people either

 

[Captante]

Hotmail (now Outlook) was one of the very first really "usable" webmail applications/sites that was a viable alternative to a local email program like Outlook or Thunderbird.

I still have a functional "hotmail" address but I rarely to never use it. Right or wrong that email was closely associated with mainly anonymous "adult-oriented" type pass-times back in the day.

Frankly using a "hotmail" email address for anything important (or a business ROTFL) is only slightly less embarrassing than an AOL! (hence the name change)

 

[WilliamM2]

No spam issues with my outlook account, or my wife's.

 

[pete6032]

Yeah I've been signing you up for a bunch of spam email lists.

 

[dlerious]

Don't use outlook, but I've gotten around 40 spam emails from outlook over the last week about my McAfee account - I've never had McAfee.