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.
1·1 year ago- Go online to Gmail.com and sign in to your account.
- Click the “Wrench” icon in the top right and select “Mail Settings.”
- Click “Accounts and Import” in the Mail Settings menu.
- Click “Import Mail and Contacts.” A pop-up window displays a step-by-step migration wizard for importing your mail from Hotmail.
- Gmail has much better spam detection and filtering.
- Make sure all your important people and businesses are saved in your contact list to ensure they are prioritized to your inbox.