One is a person who forwards a lot of junk and the other is a newsletter I can't get unsubscribed from. My own blocked list has 2 addresses on it. It's either placed in the Junk Mail folder or deleted, per your Junk mail options.įor this reason, and the reasons listed below, it is highly recommended that you add names to the Safe lists (to avoid false positives) and let the Junk Mail filter take care of the junk. and Office 365 accounts had a limit of 500 addresses or domains on the blocked list and 1024 addresses on the combined Safe lists.īlocked senders are treated as Junk Email and the messages will be handled the same way as mail filtered by the Junk Mail filter. In Outlook for Windows, there is a limit of 1024 names for the Safe and Blocked list combined and you don’t want to fill it up with addresses that are never used again. Most spammers use an address for a short period then move on to another address and you end up blocking an address that will never send you mail again.

If the junk mail filter is moving the messages to the Junk Email folder, there is no need to block the sender. The messages the rules are supposed to delete are moved before the rule runs. The rules run on mail in the Inbox after the Junk email filter has removed all the spam.

If it's moved to the Junk Email folder, you might find it.Ĭreating rules to delete the mail won't work either. If the mail is dropped, you won't be able to recover it. One reason the messages are not blocked is in the event you accidentally add a 'good' address or domain to the blocked list. Users expect that Blocked Senders are blocked from the mailbox, not moved to Junk Email. Outlook’s Blocked Senders puts the sender’s address or domain on a list and messages will always be moved to the Junk Email folder.

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