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deleting hotmail junk by keyword


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Hey, I am wondering if there is a way to filter my hotmail junk by using keywords. If an email has the word "hookup" in it I don't want to see it, I don't care who the sender is. It doesn't need to go into my junk mail folder, it needs to be deleted. same goes with anything about the "penis"....

The reason for this is that I recently spent 10 minutes going through my junk mail folder trying to find the one email that was in there but didn't belong. It seems like it should be a lot easier to filter this stuff. Gmail does a great job, hotmail, not so much.

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Options > More Options > Rules for sorting new messages

You can create a filter with a "Delete these messages?don't even put them in my Deleted folder" option, but I don't know if it applies to emails in the Junk folder. Try it and see.

To find the emails in question manually, can't you just type "hookup" in the search box to find them all?

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Would probably be easier to do it the other way and add a rule that doesn't send that kind of email to the Junk folder. Was it from a specific sender or about something specific? If yes then add a rule not to move that to junk.

Not sure if there is the same on hotmail (never used it) but in gmail you can mark something as not spam then it won't do it again.

Would probably be easier to do it the other way and add a rule that doesn't send that kind of email to the Junk folder. Was it from a specific sender or about something specific? If yes then add a rule not to move that to junk.

Not sure if there is the same on hotmail (never used it) but in gmail you can mark an email as not spam then it won't do it again.

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