Originally Posted by
schurchill39
For the legit companies that give you that option yes that works. However most straight up spam just use that to validate the email which I think might be where I got caught.
Right, but then I have to sign up for a new email address with a different provider and at that point wouldn't it just negate even having the old hotmail at all? I don't really see this as a solution as its more of a "just get rid of it and make a new email". I use gmail for my personal business and I am not a fan at all, but I agree that it does have great spam filtering.
At the end of the day if no one else has noticed it or if there aren't any solutions to keep using hotmail/outlook then I guess I'll just have to keep moving every message manually into junk in hopes that it learns that there is no hope for my dick size/mortgage rates/Chase bank account thats been compromised/funeral arrangments/magic tea big pharma doesn't want me to know about. I've tried to adjust the settings but then it sends every email to junk so who knows.