Microsoft Outlook Users Complain about Spam due to Broken Filters

Customers all over the world are complaining that their Microsoft Outlook mailboxes are full of spam because spam filters have suddenly stopped working.

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According to Bleeping Computer, the problems started yesterday, February 20, 2023. Many Outlook users have reported on social media and on the Microsoft Community site that absolutely all messages go straight to their mailboxes, even if such messages were previously marked as spam and sent to the junk mail folder.

At the same time, some note that even enabling the option “Trust only emails from my list of safe senders, safe mailing list domains” in the “Junk mail” -> “Filters” section does not solve the problem, that is, the operation of the filters is obviously broken.

While the complaints escalated, the Office status page reported that everything was working as expected and no failures were identified. Microsoft representatives also did not make any official statements or confirm reports from Outlook users that spam filters in mail do not work.