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The location for storing unwanted email as determined by a spam filter. Also called a "junk folder" or "junk mailbox," spam folders are created by mail servers as well as by the user's email program.

The algorithms guarding our inboxes have now developed to the stage that spam is usually kept at bay, but these auto-sorting processes aren’t perfect yet—if you’re not regularly opening up your spam ...

After a search both here an in Google, I need to access the hive mind. I'm using Outlook 2007 at home and a good half of the email I get on my work account ends up in the junk mail folder. Obviously I ...

Follow the steps below to change the level of protection in the Junk email filter in Outlook: Launch Outlook. On the Home tab in the Delete group, click the Junk button. Select the Junk E-mail Options ...

Yahoo Mail uses complex filters to determine if specific emails are legitimate emails or if it should treat them as junk mail and send them to the spam folder. Every email is scanned, and SpamGuard, ...