Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In most situations, Outlook is set to purge spam automatically from its Junk folder 30 days after its receipt. Q: When I see spam ...

A: While it sounds a bit counter-intuitive, seeing a large number of messages arrive in your spam folder each day does not necessarily indicate a problem. The junk folder itself (a.k.a. spam folder) ...

It happens. The longer we keep our devices, the more cluttered they become. Open your phone's app tray for a great example. How many are sitting there that you haven't opened in months or years? This ...

One thing that saves us from opening a vicious email filled with malware is that most of these emails go directly to our junk or spam folders. Once in a while, a legitimate email can be sent to your ...

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The location for storing unwanted email as determined by a spam filter. Also called a "junk folder" or "junk mailbox," spam folders are created by mail servers as well as by the user's email program.

The algorithms guarding our inboxes have now developed to the stage that spam is usually kept at bay, but these auto-sorting processes aren’t perfect yet—if you’re not regularly opening up your spam ...

Microsoft is investigating an Office 365 issue causing Outlook and Exchange Online emails to skip recipients' inboxes and being sent their junk folders instead. "We're investigating an issue in which ...

A: Ideally, items deleted from your Junk folder should be permanently deleted when you instruct the email program to do so. This typically happens when you right-click over the items in the folder, or ...