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Baffled
Copper Contributor
Jan 16, 2026

Spam and Junk

I have been using MS Windows almost from the day it was invented, at least since I purchased my first computer in the 1960's and similarly using MS Office in all its guises. Throughout that time I ha...
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C_the_S
Bronze Contributor
Jan 20, 2026

If the spam is ending up in your Junk Email folder then using the Reporting tool is not needed. 

Here's the steps an Exchange Engineer once told me at a conference a number of years ago to manage my mailbox with as little effort as possible.

  1. Check Inbox, move spam to Junk Email (this tells backend servers that you find it to be junk)
  2. Check Junk Email, move any legit items to your Inbox
  3. Empty Junk Email folder

That's it. No Rules, No Blocks, No Reporting. 

Microsoft blocks multi-Billions (yes that's a B) of emails a day from ever entering our mailboxes. They let the ones they aren't 100% sure about through just in case something might be legit for you.

Also, realize that Business users do get better spam blocking, but we are of course paying for it, whereas the majority of Consumer users do not. As for your friend, maybe they've never released their email address publicly. So far, there are no email services that can promise 0 spam.

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