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    This tip in the attached PDF isn’t for everybody, but if you check the Spam or Junk Mail folder often for emails that are from people/businesses/organizations you want to see the emails from that were placed wrongly in the Spam/Junk Mail folder by ISP/Outlook spam filters; this may be a big labor saving tip for you.

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    HTH, Dana:))

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      @Drcard:)), thank YOU! Although I will be migrating to Thunderbird, I still use Outlook 2010 and have had to put up with too many good emails ending up in my Junk Mail folder over the past several years, no matter what! I spend as much time looking in that folder as I do looking in my Inbox.

      I can attest that your instructions can be used for Outlook 2010 (with slight differences), after just having set up my own “SpamCk” folder, and I will add more sender words or phrases as needed. Thanks again!

      Win 7 SP1 Home Premium 64-bit; Office 2010; Group B (SaS); Former 'Tech Weenie'
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        Hey SueW,
        I’ll even do you one better.
        Essentially, I now use my Junk Mail Folder AS my Inbox 🙂

        EVERYTHING (except a very few senders that I have put on my Safe Senders list) first goes to my Junk Mail Folder.
        Emails ONLY get moved to my Inbox, or account sub-folders I’ve created, if I want and/or need to deal with them.

        I even leave KNOWN senders emails in my Junk Mail Folder, as everyone now seems to think that making emails unreadable without allowing their pictures and URL addresses to be downloaded.

        BY FAR, I’ve found AARP to be the worst, most prolific source of unwanted junk mail (masquerading as “new benefits” or some such).
        What they’re sending — repeatedly — are almost all links to their 3rd-party associates 🙁
        Or, nagging me to set my account preferences to “auto-renew” so that I can save $10 on something.
        I’ll get right on it right after I give all my personal information to Subway to save $3 on a footlong. FWIW, Subway has lost me as a customer, as have other bricks-and-mortar retailers, who have adopted this two-tier pricing strategy (to collect our personal information to sell to other 3rd-parties).

        ROFL

        Moderator Edit: to removed content. Profanity not allowed.

        • #2700739

          Hey back Sisyphus7x64,

          Fortunately, Drcard:))’s approach has resulted in all of my “good” emails going right into my Inbox. Occasionally, another ‘copy’ also lands in my Junk Mail folder (which I delete).

          Interesting approach you have, and I’m glad it works for you 🙂

          Win 7 SP1 Home Premium 64-bit; Office 2010; Group B (SaS); Former 'Tech Weenie'
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