Not sure I’m in the right zone - please redirect me if there is a more suitable place to be!
The last eight months or so my Hotmail inbox has been smashed. Far more than ever ever before - about 50 spam a day. That’s not a lot by some standards but when you have to manually sort them out from your real email, it grows quite tiresome.
I don’t know what’s caused the sudden surge in spam, but more concerning is that Microsoft/Hotmail don’t appear to have a single goddamn thing to fight against it.
They have the “block all but safe senders” option, a “block these senders” option, and LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE. There appears to be absolutely zero automatic spam filtering option with the familiar levels (none, low, high, safe senders only). As a result, my good old Hotmail is becoming nigh unusable.
Am I overlooking something really obvious? Has this sudden flare-up of spam happened to anyone else in the last year? Is there some wonderful button I can press that will bring me back to the glory days of relatively spam-free existence?
Thanking you in advance.
TIL that Hotmail is still a thing.
Hotmail still exists but is being served by the same platform as outlook.com. it’s just an old name / new name scenario.
I use both Hotmail and outlook. One I give to business and one I give to friends. No business ever gets my outlook.com address and I basically never see a spam email on it. Even my hotmail rarely gets junkmail if you manage what lists your are on.
Many people use their old Hotmail account as a Burner spam dumping spot for businesses and websites they don’t want to give their current email address.
That makes it hard for them to implement a spam filter, when so many people are intentionally sending spam to that old account and never checking it.