Provider's own filter isn't stopping you can create a custom filter for your account, and if the webmail provider filtered a message that isn't spam you can mark it 'not spam,' but that's as far as you can go. There's very little that you can do to control a webmail provider's spam filter. Windows Mail is really just an interface for your webmail accounts like GMail or or Yahoo!, etc., which do their own spam filtering. Your liking, or you can dispense with the spam filter and instead decide on your own what is and isn't spam, which seems to be what you prefer. Email clients like Outlook and Thunderbird have spam filters that you can customize to
#Windows 10 mail spam filter install#
A 'client' in this instance means a program that you install on your computer. Windows Mail is not an email client like Microsoft Office Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. I do not quit for those who are polite and cooperative. _ Windows MVP 2010-20 Millions helped via my tutorials and personally in forums for 12 years. It is ONLY a sync service and none of those filter spam. If WIndows 10 Mail was a client then it would be different, but it is nothing of the sort like Windows LIve Mail. An example would be on your phone where mail apps never screen out spam but rely on the host mailbox they're sycning to do this. ĭid you understand what I was trying to explain about the spam filtering being done by your Mail Provider and not a sync service which doesn't do this normally. Windows Live Mail is shutting off functionality from what we are hearing reported, after we did help users install it in Compatibilty Mode earlier in Windows 10. This is a tech forums staffed mostly by volunteers trying to help others with your problems. If you want to express your opinion on this to Microsoft use the Feedback Hub app in Start Menu where developers are tasked to process consumer feedback. Bill Gates hasn't been with Microsoft for 15 years.