How rubbish is Outlook.com!?

I’ve not looked iny Hotmail for years. I use it for the sign ups I’d rather not. Si I literally   open Hotmail. Com click the first “authentication” email then close it. Last I looked it was full of porn, viagra, and Nigerian prince’s.

MS know me so well, I’m sure they do spy on my browsing hehehe

Joking aside, I treat my Hotmail like a spam sink hole, and that is what it become. However in the day pre Gmail launch, I got in early, the reason was my Hotmail addy was already a mess, and that had to be 10 years ago.

Though my live.com account seems less molested, but I rarely use that, so it’s relatively  unknown. I don’t think it’s outlook is bad, I just thing Gmail is better at what it does. As I said it’s now 10 years old, and still spam free.

Wow Gmail born 1 April 2004. I probably started late 04 early 05, invites where hard to get back then.

I have never seen any spam in my gmail inbox since I first opened the account 10/7/2008

Recently I stupidly registered a new domain using my business email account. The Outlook 2016 client on my Office 365 account has been pretty good at detecting yet another website design / seop / logo design offer and moving them straight to the junk folder after I blocked the first half-a-dozen (they arrived in minutes after registration). I am now using 1&1’s anonymous registration service!

My mail.com addy gets tons of spam, at least 30 a day. It’s only used for shopping and insurance quotes, that kind of thing. Anything important gets forwarded to my gmail. The search is pretty good, not quite as good as Google but not far behind.  My yahoo account also gets tons of spam but it’s all auto-forwarded to mail.com so is hardly ever checked, just when I get a reminder that I need to log in or the account dies.

I have 3 gmail accounts, all easily switchable on the Android app. Very handy.

The only problems I get on my Hotmail account (now under Outlook) are the “Adult Dating” emails I get, usually two a day. They are all shoved into Junk by Outlook and I Block them from there. The address changes slightly every day and back they come next day, must be electronically-generated. I have been offered several “Dates” by several female names that look British. Only problem they have, is running out of names: some are coming back for the 3rd and 4th time. I look upon it as the brown and smelly disappearing into the electronic sewer.

I also have a gmail account which puts lots of Scaninavian Naughties into Spam, from where I do a Sweep once a week and Delete Forever.

I can’t say I ever look on my Gmail spam folder. I bet it’s got 1000s of dates lined up for me.

Well I was wrong. It just says 99+ unread in the spam folder. The majority is apple Id scams and PayPal ones. Also wileyfox seems to of been hovered up into the spam filter, so I just white listed them.

Google will auto delete spam after 30days it just told me when I opened the spam folder. Understandable given they have over a billion Gmail accounts active. I’d bet there is more Gmail addresses  than there are people on earth. Even if not active all will be getting spam each day, which I’ll add up to alot of wasted serverspace. Especially when you think your email isn’t kept on a single server. There is probably 10 backups of it around the world.