Stardock Vice President, Brad Sams, posted on Twitter this morning about the ongoing Outlook problems, tweeting:

“Did Outlook wake up today and decide ‘today’s the day we turn off the spam filters?'”

The point notable was that Microsoft’s Outlook community forums got filled up with messages about spam filter issues. Some users even stated that their Hotmail inboxes are also filling up with spam messages. Initially, Microsoft did not issue an official comment on the breakdown in Outlook spam filters. There was no idea whether there will be a new update in order to resolve the issue or what.

The point worth mentioning here is that in our brief testing, we came to know that spam is not filtered on Outlook on the web (outlook.com).  However, if you open the Outlook client app, the messages are properly filtered. It is then synced to Outlook.com where the spam messages are marked as Junk Mail.

The good part of the news is that you don’t have to worry about this issue anymore. Recently, Microsoft sent messages to some users around 5:30 pm Eastern time on Twitter. They clearly stated that the Outlook spam issue ” has been resolved.” However, the company did not state the reason for the original error.