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OMG, I hate Outlook

         

csdude55

4:26 pm on Mar 3, 2020 (gmt 0)

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I've given it 3 months... cosmetically, it's fine, I like how it looks. But oh. my. god. The junk mail!

Unlike T-bird, it doesn't seem to have a learning feature, so all I can do is block senders after getting the spam. I can either click once to block the email address, or I can right click > Junk > Junk Email Options > Block Senders, Add, and manually type the @example.com.

So like today, I had 40 junk mails that were all the same, all with "SEO Optimization" in the subject (yes, "search engine optimization optimization"). All from different email addresses, so I had to manually block each of them. And this is a daily thing!

Worse, now I have to scan my junk folder several times each day, because half of the emails that it does filtered are good!

I use Gmail to IMAP to Gmail and have its spam filter turned off because it's too aggressive, but I guess that I could manually create filters every day to filter words or patterns. But T-bird did this wonderfully on its own... I rarely saw spam in my Inbox, and checked my spam folder once or twice a month because it rarely made a mistake.

I expected much, much better from a program that I actually paid for >:-(

tangor

5:02 pm on Mar 3, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Hmmm... I've found Outlook's junk mail processing to be comparable to Tbird ...

Have you done all that can be done as suggested here?:

[support.office.com...]

csdude55

9:04 pm on Mar 3, 2020 (gmt 0)

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Yup :-(

I set the protection level to "Low", but it still filters too many good emails.

I already have 362 emails in my "Safe Senders" list, in part because I can't whitelist something like "example@" (I have 70 domains, and had to manually whitelist every email address from any of my scripts).

My "Blocked Senders" list was already over 400 (the max is apparently 500), so I spent an hour over the weekend converting as many as I could to blocking entire domains and then de-duping; now it's down to 145. But I'm still just reacting AFTER I've gotten the spam in my Inbox.

vordmeister

9:12 pm on Mar 3, 2020 (gmt 0)

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I have a lot of trouble sending mail to Outlook. I have a forum on the server where people can opt in to recieve email notifications. My guess is when they get bored with them they use the filters provided by Outlook and the IP of the server ends up getting blocked from sending from any email address to any Outlook/Hotmail etc recipient.

I just pay for another SMTP server for my own mails. I use Outlook at work and don't like it from either side, but it is the choice of IT professionals so I'm stuck.


piatkow

8:37 am on Mar 6, 2020 (gmt 0)

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The problem with getting blocked because lazy people use the spam button rather than unsubscribing isn't exclusive to Outlook. I was once blocked by Yahoo for the same reason.