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Microsoft To Do Flagged Email List has Created a New Attack Surface for Junk Email
- 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.
this issue still persists. Is there anything that can be done on our end?
JUNK emails now show up in the "Important" list as well as "Flagged email" and "My Day - Suggestions"
mgratton1002 wrote:this issue still persists. Is there anything that can be done on our end?
JUNK emails now show up in the "Important" list as well as "Flagged email" and "My Day - Suggestions"
mgratton1002 Yes, I see this problem has started again after being fixed for about a year (for me at least). But I'm just a regular user like you, not Microsoft support. You need to direct this issue to Microsoft.
Obviously, no one from Microsoft is paying attention here in Tech Community, so it's time to hit the social media (twitter, reddit, etc) and Feedback Hub again. Sadly, Microsoft's social media managers ignored or dismissed this issue for months back then, so the more users mentioning it, the more chance it will be noticed by someone who cares enough to follow up.
Meanwhile, I'll search for the emails I received from a Microsoft engineer after giving up on other forms of asistance and contacting Microsoft support directly. Hopefully that person is still around and on the same team or someone else there will be as knowledgable.
UPDATE: The issue appears to be temporary and has now been resolved. See my response to definedrisk. In my case, all the flagged and important junk emails that To Do imported are dated April 9-11. If that's the case for you as well, then we just have to clean up the mess left behind and hope this doesn't happen again...