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Microsoft To Do Flagged Email List has Created a New Attack Surface for Junk Email
Outlook and Microsoft To Do are being exploited by spammers to turn our Flagged email list into a cesspool of junk email. Outlook allows any outgoing email to be flagged and To Do will display any...
- Update: On January 29, I finally got a response directly from a support engineer on the To Do team! He acknowledged that the issue was being addressed and asked me to keep in touch with any updates. Since then, I'm happy to report that the To Do Flagged and Important smartlists have been SPAM free. The only exception was a temporary, regression on Feb 19 that was repatched within 24 hours.
Now we can enjoy SPAM free To Do smartlists. Note: Any junk mail that made its way into To Do before this issue was fixed will have to be removed manually.
Read through entire thread. Thanks for your diligence! and yes, it's still happening... I get 'flagged' emails appearing on my 'task list' that are so obviously spam that they don't even make it into my junk mail folder!! Since I do truly want to be able to benefit from my outlook flagged emails/task lists (primarily on my iPhone) I've so far just been deleting them daily - easiest if the flagged emails are sorted by 'importance' since most of the spam comes through as 'starred'
Very frustrating since it can't be that difficult to fix because the same messages clearly don't make it through the standard Outlook email filters!
Very frustrating since it can't be that difficult to fix because the same messages clearly don't make it through the standard Outlook email filters!