Junk Emails

My wife runs Windows 10 on her computer.  In Outlook her Junk EMail Folder is frequently full of unwanted emails.  Once an email is in this folder, you are not able to 'Block Sender'.  All I can do is 'empty' this folder.  Is there a way to block all of these unwanted emails?

thanks, rlightning

Hi,

If the e-mail are already detected as SPAM and moved to the Junk EMail Folder there is no point in using Block Sender.

The e-mails in the Junk EMail Folder are to delete or recover them in case some message was wrongly classified as Spam.

The best way to fight Spam is to report it directly on the e-mail server, doing so several times and the server rules to detect Spam should catch them and block the e-mails completely. Depending on the server this will work better or not.

Is your wife e-mail from gmail.com, outlook.com, ...?

I will second SleepyDude's observation.   Trying to block spam senders is like trying to hold back the ocean using the palm of your hand.

Spam filtering has become very, very sophisticated and very, very good at snagging only what it needs to snag with very rare exceptions.  You are far better off when the occasional message makes it through a spam filter taking the time to do whatever your e-mail client or webmail requires to classify it as spam so that the filters get additional data to work with.

All I ever do with the Spam filter is to take an occasional quick look to see if something legitimate may have been accidentally trapped, and if so, moving it back to inbox and if not, emptying the Spam folder so there's only "fresh spam" when I next do the quick check.

My wife runs Windows 10 on her computer.  In Outlook her Junk EMail Folder is frequently full of unwanted emails.  Once an email is in this folder, you are not able to 'Block Sender'.  All I can do is 'empty' this folder.  Is there a way to block all of these unwanted emails?

I'll mirror the advice being given so far, but I'd also recommend checking out something like Mailwasher. I use this tool every day and have written a four part review of it at another forum. Here's a link to Part 1 - links to the other parts can be found in my article.

Learn to use the POWER of Mailwasher Pro - Part 1

Been quite some time since I've had a single unwanted email pollute my Outlook database because of using that tool. Give it a try.

Regards, Andrew

Thank you for your input. I will continue sending her junk files to the trash.  I just wanted to ask some of you folks, to see if there was a better way to handle all these items.

Thanks again……….Have a great Christmas.