However, the main difference is that the IMAP server is using a different Junk E-mail filter or may not be filtering at all. When you are using an IMAP account, you are basically in the same situation as with an Exchange or account. With an Exchange account ( which all will soon be using as well), this setting is automatically synchronized to your other computers so you don't have to disable it multiple times.ĭisable the Junk E-mail Filter in Outlook and rely on server-based filtering instead. Note that you'll have to disable the Junk Email filter on a per account basis. Also, even though you have disabled the Junk E-mail filter in Outlook, it will still use Outlook's Safe and Blocked lists. These however are updated more frequently than Outlook's Junk Email Filter (sometimes even multiple times per day). However, when you sync an Exchange or account, the Junk E-mail Filter will indeed scan the message again, so when you have moved an item out of the Junk E-mail folder, it now may be caught by the local Outlook Junk E-mail filter.īy disabling Outlook's own Junk E-mail Filter, you'll completely rely on the Junk Email filtering capabilities of Exchange or. These filters are largely the same as the Junk E-mail filter of Outlook so Outlook may not even have filtered out the original email in the first place. When you are using an Exchange or account, your emails are already being scanned and filtered at server level. If these messages are always from the same email addresses, then you can Safe List these email addresses so they won’t be treated as Junk in the first place.Īs an alternative, in most cases, this can be solved more efficiently by simply disabling the Junk E-mail Filter without actually losing the Junk E-mail filtering capability. This usually occurs by having the Junk E-mail Filter enabled on multiple computers. When I'm traveling, I'm using a laptop but when it collects all my emails since the last time I used it (which can be for over a week), it rescans all the emails that are being synced and most false positives end up in the Junk E-mail folder again. On one computer, which I use daily, I've taken all the false positives out of my Junk E-mail folder and back into my Inbox or other folders.
I'm using Outlook on multiple computers which apparently is causing a problem with the Junk E-mail filter.
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