Thu Jan 30, 2020, 12:37 PM

Outlook Question on Spam/Junk Email Management [Office 365 (subscription)]

If I delete the folder contents for spam and junk, will I lose the incoming filtering database that shuttles spam/junk to these folders?

I have accumulated a few thousand unread messages in the Spam/Junk folders, probably a few more hundreds that are tagged as read.

I think deleting the emails would probably speed up sign-in and overall performance in the app, but I don't want to have to reteach what is spam/junk.

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Outlook Question on Spam/Junk Email Management [Office 365 (subscription)] (Original post)	OAITW r.2.0	Jan 2020	OP
Not if you delete the contents. Deleting the entire folder that houses the contents... maybe	hlthe2b	Jan 2020	#1
Agreed. Easy to do a mass delete on individual emails.	OAITW r.2.0	Jan 2020	#5
Nuke 'em	CloudWatcher	Jan 2020	#2
That's what I think too.	OAITW r.2.0	Jan 2020	#3
Good answers from both hlthe2b and CloudWatcher.	ManiacJoe	Jan 2020	#4

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Thu Jan 30, 2020, 12:46 PM

hlthe2b (84,076 posts)

1. Not if you delete the contents. Deleting the entire folder that houses the contents... maybe

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Response to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 08:12 PM

OAITW r.2.0 (7,934 posts)

5. Agreed. Easy to do a mass delete on individual emails.

The folder remains. Deleting the folder would probably reigger a rebuild, I would think.

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Thu Jan 30, 2020, 12:50 PM

CloudWatcher (1,001 posts)

2. Nuke 'em

I know nothing about Outlook or it's implementation, but in general ... once junk email is flagged as junk you can delete it. You don't need to keep the junk email for training.

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Thu Jan 30, 2020, 05:07 PM

OAITW r.2.0 (7,934 posts)

3. That's what I think too.

Nuke 'Em it is!

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Response to OAITW r.2.0 (Original post)

Thu Jan 30, 2020, 07:14 PM

ManiacJoe (9,924 posts)

4. Good answers from both hlthe2b and CloudWatcher.

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