Microsoft Outlook spam filters break down, flood users' inbox with junk emails

Several Outlook users took to social media after facing issues with their spam email filters that were broken and junk mails reached users’ inbox. Also Read: iOS 27 update revealed: Liquid Glass design stays but these tweaks are coming

Many Outlook users in Europe faced the same issues, seeing an inbox full of spam messages. Also Read: Inside Google Maps’ biggest redesign in years: AI tools and 3D navigation explained

“Outlook spam filter is garbage,” an Outlook user tweeted. Also Read: Google Play gets PC games section, trials for paid titles, and more

“Glad I’m not the only one that has been having problems! I hope Microsoft is on the case. Very annoying!” another posted.

It was advisable for users to temporarily disable notifications for email app on smartphones that’s connected to their Outlook personal account to avoid getting notifications for spam emails.

Microsoft Outlook was yet to fix the issue.

“Is it just me or have Outlook (online) spam filters gone from reasonably ok to utterly bad?,” tweeted another affected user.

Earlier this month, Microsoft’s Outlook webmail service suffered an outage.

Users reported issues while sending, receiving, or searching email through Outlook.com.

Some users also found they were not able to connect to Outlook.com, seeing 500 Errors when trying to log in.

The company applied “targeted mitigation to the infrastructure, and early validation indicated recovery. The issue was fixed later.

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— IANS