Email service that shows you your Spam as soon as loging in?

May 14, 2023 12:05 PM

I need this. I'm looking for the one that shows me my Spam file when I log in, as opposed to showing me what's in my Inbox. Also has any of the well known ones started that?
posted by amfgf to Computers & Internet (10 answers total)

Best answer: I don't understand this question. Why would you want this? Can you clarify what you're trying to accomplish?

I think you will have a hard time finding this feature as generally people do not want to see what's in their spam folder. If you're missing emails you want because they're going to spam, I'd try marking them as not-spam.
posted by potrzebie at 12:46 PM on May 14, 2023 [6 favorites]

Best answer: It looks like there's an add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird that lets you select which folder to start in. This is a desktop mail reader, but being open source it's pretty flexible.
posted by BungaDunga at 12:54 PM on May 14, 2023 [2 favorites]

Best answer: I’m actually pretty curious why one would want to see spam first, before the inbox. Knowing why might help with how.
posted by Ahmad Khani at 12:58 PM on May 14, 2023 [2 favorites]

Best answer: You can go directly to the Spam folder in Gmail by bookmarking https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#spam. Most web-based email services should work the same way.
posted by Gamera4President at 1:09 PM on May 14, 2023 [19 favorites]

Desktop Outlook also lets you pick the folder you want to see first. Outlook for the Web does not.
posted by rsclark at 6:46 PM on May 14, 2023

Response by poster: Thank you all esp. BubgaDunga,
Gamera4President,
rsclark,.
ptrzebi, and Ahmad Khani,
It looks like it's not just me who wants this feature since it exists. Once it is the first thing that I see I never have to go back into to my account to check, in case there is an important non-spam email that I wasn't expecting. I can't believe what is found in the Spam. Email from Windows, Microsoft can be found in Spam.
posted by amfgf at 3:25 PM on May 18, 2023

I suspect that if email purporting to be from Microsoft is going into spam, and you're clicking on things in those messages, odds are you're getting scammed, or you have drastically misconfigured your spam filter.
posted by Alterscape at 3:59 PM on May 20, 2023

What is ‘email from Windows’?
posted by Ahmad Khani at 4:23 PM on May 20, 2023

Response by poster: Alterscape,
I have never clicked on those emails. I didn't configure my spam filter.

Ahmad Khani,
I don't know since I never clicked on it/them.

It's on Outlook.
posted by amfgf at 4:40 PM on May 24, 2023

Response by poster: Ahmad Khani, to answer your question,

Windows email (without me clicking it) says, "New Surface PCs are here ..."
"Discover the latest laptops designed by ..."....
Microsoft's is similar kind of thing.
posted by amfgf at 1:01 PM on May 27, 2023