How to avoid Hotmail marks important messages as spam

The Windows Live Hotmail spam filtering options are great, and they can send a lot of spam you see in your Windows Live Hotmail inbox to the Junk folder automatically. But filters are not perfect and they can misidentify important mail as spam.

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As a precaution, you can add known senders to the Safe senders list . Hotmail will never treat messages from senders in this list as spam.

To prevent Hotmail from marking important messages as spam, do the following:

• Select Options> More Options ... from the Windows Live Hotmail login toolbar.
• Click Safe and blocked senders in the Preventing junk email .
• Click Safe senders .
• Enter the email address or domain name you want to place in the Safe senders list in the Senders or domains to mark as safe: field .
• Click Add to list >> .

If you have subscribed to the mailing list, make sure their mail is also sent there.

You can also install Windows Live Hotmail to only accept mail from known senders.