How to Get Outlook to Allow All Emails By Default

Question

Outlook keeps sending legitimate emails to junk which is extremely annoying.

The email may be from a company or a friend with a different email address, but occasionally, it sends legitimate emails that I want to read to junk.

What this means is that every day, I constantly have to check my inbox AND my junk folder.

This is very annoying. How do I make it so that all email senders are allowed through by default unless I explicitly block them?

Does Gmail do this too?

I have looked on the web version and the local pc app, and the only options are to set it to standard or strict and then a block attachments option that is already unchecked. There should be some sort of option to Allow all emails through by default.

Thanks

-J

Answer 1

Hi @J W, 

 

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum. 

 

We know how annoying it can be when legitimate emails end up in your Junk folder. This usually happens for one or both of these reasons: 

• Low sender reputation – The sender’s email or domain might have been flagged as spam in the past, even if the message is valid. 
• Your organization settings sometimes filter out safe emails. 

 

As a user, you can do: 

• Add trusted senders to your Safe Senders list to make sure their emails always go to your inbox. 

 

• Mark emails as “Not Junk” when you find them in the Junk folder — this helps Outlook learn your preferences over time. 

Please feel free to reach out to me again if you have other queries.

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