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Emails from specific senders may be set up to go to the trash or other folders. Check your settings to view or change where they're going. • If you've set up filters, the settings may be routing some emails to the trash.
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By default, both the Trash and Spam folders empty automatically to keep your account tidy. These settings are set systemically and can't be changed. • Trash deletion frequency - Trash is deleted after 7 days. • Spam deletion frequency - Spam is deleted after 30 days.
On the flip side, junk email can easily make its way past the spam folder filter and into your main email inbox. Sometimes, that spam can contain phishing links and other malicious code.
Check your other folders. The first thing place to check if you're missing mail is to check your other folders. If you find missing messages in these folders it's likely they were either mistakenly marked as spam or filtered. Should this happen, check your filters and spam settings to make sure they're what you expect them to be.
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Filters - Review your settings to see if filters are sending emails to another folder. If you find any unexpected filters, check to see if your account may have been compromised. Search for them - Locate misplaced emails using our basic or advanced search options. Spam and Trash - These folders don't show in search results. Check them manually.