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) ...

In most situations, Outlook is set to purge spam automatically from its Junk folder 30 days after its receipt. Q: When I see spam in my Junk folder in Outlook, I immediately delete it. This transfers ...

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Q: I have a very large number of spam landing in my junk folder every day, sometimes as many as 50 to 70 messages, and once more than 100. For a while I tried blocking them, but that didn't seem to do ...

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 ...