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We’ll reply to top issues, and will consider other suggestions as well. Thanks for trying the beta!
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Blocked email selected not being blocked
blocked email not being blocked
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Rules for junk
PLEASE add rules for junk mail. I often get mail in my junk mail that is actually useful, so I look in there often. Lately, I've been getting SO MANY phishing emails from Save Yourself trying to "blackmail" me into sending them bitcoin, and it automatically goes to my junk folder, but I want anything with the words "Save Yourself" to be deleted so I don't have to look at it. Their emails contain an old password of mine, and their emails are all different, so even if I block one, I'll get another email from a different address in…
1,050 votes -
Obvious spam being sent to Inbox
Why is obvious spam not going to Junk or being blocked. 42 emails with the same "From" and "Subject" that arrived within 120 secs to my Inbox. These should have been filtered out and deleted or at the very least sent to Junk. Why weren't they?
1,532 votes -
Too much junk / spam: Junk folder becoming to inundated
20 year user moving to new platform. Flooded my junk box with advertisements now I have to search for any emails that may be of value to me that don't automatically filter to my inbox. It's a shame.
2,893 votes -
Problems with Blocked Senders list and junk mail Filter Options.
The Blocked Senders list puts email from Blocked Senders into my Junk Mail folder, rather than into my Deleted Files folder, due to the differing and changing subdomains that the spammers use.
Outlook does not allow wildcard (*) to block all subdomains from each email domain.
The filter options to block all subdomains from each domain don't work.
How do I block all email with address in the PATTERN of a@a.b.c? Notice that a@a.b.c is a PATTERN, not an email address. An example of a particular spammer's address is holdon@holdon.luxuryzero.com which is in the PATTERN of a@a.b.c (format).
Please…
520 votes -
QUIT MARKING EMAIL SPAM AFTER I HAVE SAID THEY ARE NOT SPAM
QUIT PUTTING EMAILS IN SPAM FOLDER AFTER I HAVE SAID THEY ARE NOT SPAM!!!!!
637 votes -
Junk e-mail: block e-mail addresses using wildcards (eg *@*.can
Junk e-mail: why can't you allow the user to block e-mails using a wildcard and only part of the e-mail address? I receive, EVERY DAY, emails from pharmacy<something>.can and I want to block @.can instead of wasting my time to block every single instance, every single day
771 votesThanks for your feedback! Sorry to hear that you are having these problems with blocking senders.
Our junk / spam team is looking into this suggestion, and we should have an update in the next month or two.
Colin
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Return Receipt
Return Receipt when e-mail is sent
901 votesThanks for the comment! We’re putting Read Receipts under consideration, for possible Outlook.com features.
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Need a "block domain" option from Inbox.
Please give us the option of one click to select the "block domain" option from our Inbox. Thanks!
626 votes -
dark mode issues
The overall issue is darkmode is very hard to work with as a developer, until recently we could override certain things that were breaking but the recent update adds !important to the inlined styles so we can no longer fix the bugs it causes.
A few of the bugs that we’re facing include...
Light colours are adjusted but dark are not, leading to a lack of visual structure where contrast is being used.
When dark text is applied to a light background image the text is made light but the background stays the same making it very hard to read …65 votesWe’re working through these bugs, thanks for the feedback! We’ll have an update in the next couple months.
Colin
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Quarterly recurrences for appointments, meetings, and/or tasks
Outlook recurrence patterns currently include "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthly", and "Yearly". Can a "Quarterly" recurrence pattern be added? This would save time having to manually insert reminders in the calendar each quarter.
27 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re looking into this.
Colin
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Update Outlook so that email addresses with abnormal characters (not "special" or normal) can be blocked by command and rules.
There is A LOT, and I really mean A LOT, of spam mails that use email addresses which include characters that we don't normally find anywhere in ASCII. We need Outlook to become able to block and IMMEDIATELY REMOVE email addresses that include non-ASCII characters, very badly.
These email spammers are willing to make any nonsense character be inserted into the sending address at any cost, just to waste space and time.
25 votes -
minutes
add 45 minutes option in the list of time slot available in the endtime field when creating an invitation
lot of people don't need a 30min or 1h meeting but 45 to have some buffer
the same can be achieved by macro but we can ask all employee to create a macro for it50 votesThanks for your feedback! We’ll look into this.
Colin
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Gmail Feature in outlook web not working
gmail feature not working properly.
Added gmail account. icon never shows up in left. clicking the mail+ icon then changes URL to outlook.live.com/mail/1/inbox but no longer have access to Microsoft inbox.
19 votesThanks for your feedback. We are looking into the icon issue.
Gmail will show up in a separate tab. Simply return to previous tab for access to your Microsoft account.
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Can't see my avatar anymore. Replaced by initals.
Can't see my avatar anymore. Replaced by initals.
25 votes -
Unwanted "subscriptions".
Anyway to "select all" of subscriptions and then "unselect" the ones I really subscribed to??????
102 votesThanks for your feedback! We’re looking into this and will update when our team has evaluated.
Colin
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Send blocked emails straight to deleted items instead of to junk mail folder
Send blocked emails straight to deleted items instead of to junk mail folder. There are 2 options, to mark as junk or to block, yet both put the emails from that domain or sender into the junk folder. It makes no sense to have 2 different options that do the same. If something is blocked, it shouldn't ever appear in junk mail or the inbox.
14 votes -
SAFE SENDERS BROKEN!!
Safe Senders all deleted and cannot save new ones!!
167 votesHey, we’re looking into this with our Information Protection team. Will provide an update in the next month or so!
Colin
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Annoying I-phoine picture in e-mail!!!!!
annoying phone picture in e-mail needs to go now at the bottom in my "select to read" box, this is totally screwed up and very unnecessary, remove it now please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 vote -
my junk folder is gone, so is my Focused and Others? Help!!!
Where are these folders? Did Microsoft change something the week of April 9th 2018??
802 votesWe’re sorry people are experiencing issues here. We have gone back to the old behavior for the left-hand folder tree to always show since last year and we hope this has addressed most issues.
There are some reports in the comments about individual folders not showing up. In order for us to get to the bottom of the issue, please post as much detail as possible in your comments. What steps are you taking? Which browser/computer/operating system are you using?
Thank you for your help.
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