In most situations, Outlook is set to purge spam automatically from its Junk folder 30 days after its receipt. Q: When I see spam in my Junk folder in Outlook, I immediately delete it. This transfers ...

A: While it sounds a bit counter-intuitive, seeing a large number of messages arrive in your spam folder each day does not necessarily indicate a problem. The junk folder itself (a.k.a. spam folder) ...

The algorithms guarding our inboxes have now developed to the stage that spam is usually kept at bay, but these auto-sorting processes aren’t perfect yet—if you’re not regularly opening up your spam ...

Outlook's spam folder automatically filters potentially unwanted emails, which you can access later. On the desktop version of Outlook, you can mark messages as spam or not spam to help Outlook's ...

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One thing that saves us from opening a vicious email filled with malware is that most of these emails go directly to our junk or spam folders. Once in a while, a legitimate email can be sent to your ...

A: Ideally, items deleted from your Junk folder should be permanently deleted when you instruct the email program to do so. This typically happens when you right-click over the items in the folder, or ...