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OAITW r.2.0

(30,485 posts) Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:37 PM Jan 2020

Outlook Question on Spam/Junk Email Management [Office 365 (subscription)] [View all]

If I delete the folder contents for spam and junk, will I lose the incoming filtering database that shuttles spam/junk to these folders?

I have accumulated a few thousand unread messages in the Spam/Junk folders, probably a few more hundreds that are tagged as read.

I think deleting the emails would probably speed up sign-in and overall performance in the app, but I don't want to have to reteach what is spam/junk.

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Outlook Question on Spam/Junk Email Management [Office 365 (subscription)] [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2020 OP

Not if you delete the contents. Deleting the entire folder that houses the contents... maybe hlthe2b Jan 2020 #1

Agreed. Easy to do a mass delete on individual emails. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2020 #5

Nuke 'em CloudWatcher Jan 2020 #2

That's what I think too. OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2020 #3

Good answers from both hlthe2b and CloudWatcher. ManiacJoe Jan 2020 #4