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How to check your Junk Email Folder in Outlook
This article explains how to deal with spam in Outlook
Before After Spammers are continually varying their techniques to get their messages past our detection systems. Our spam defenses are continually updated to new spam detection definitions in order to keep the tagging as effective and accurate as possible. Spammers periodically develop new techniques and you may see a temporary increase in untagged spam arriving in your Inbox. Please delete these messages as they come in. We no longer collect samples of these messages. We have found the vendor was supplying updates for them on their own. How do I check for my spam? The Technology Solutions recently altered the spam behavior and some email that you may have been expecting could be placed in the "Junk Email" folder. It's a good idea to regularly review messages in the Junk Email folder to check for legitimate messages that were incorrectly classified as junk. You can find your Junk Email Folder in the following location: If you find a message that isn’t junk, drag it back
to the Inbox or any folder. You can also mark the item as not junk by doing the following: 1. Click on the Junk Email folder 2. Right-Click on the email in question 3. Click on "Junk" 4. Click on "Not Junk". NOTE: You will see a pop-up that allows you to make all future emails from this sender as not "Junk".Overview of the Junk Email at UIC
Email that might be spam will have a ***SPAM*** tag added to its Subject line. For example:
Subject: Paradise is waiting, why are you not here yet?
From: Obscure Emailer <spammer@spamcity.COM>
Subject: ***SPAM*** Paradise is waiting, why are you not here yet?
From: Obscure Emailer <spammer@spamcity.COMUntagged spam and incorrectly tagged messages
