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.

  • RJM_50BEnglish
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    11 months ago
    1. Go online to Gmail.com and sign in to your account.
    2. Click the “Wrench” icon in the top right and select “Mail Settings.”
    3. Click “Accounts and Import” in the Mail Settings menu.
    4. Click “Import Mail and Contacts.” A pop-up window displays a step-by-step migration wizard for importing your mail from Hotmail.
    5. Gmail has much better spam detection and filtering.
    6. Make sure all your important people and businesses are saved in your contact list to ensure they are prioritized to your inbox.