I want all my emails to come to my in box, how do I set this up?

Question

I don't want emails to go to a junk folder. I can't delete the junk folder but can i somehow get mail into my inbox? I have missed important email because it was sitting unread in a folder that I never open. What an idiotic default!!

Answer 1

You have Junk controls enabled so that any emails which are thought to be Junk go into the Junk folder by default.
I understand that missing emails can be frustrating to say the least, but checking the Junk Folder daily only takes a few moments.
Having Junk controls is not idiotic as the majority of users require this if they do not want to trawl through an Inbox containing Junk mail. I certainly have no spare time to manually delete or move junk mail and therefore no preference to sit looking at a load of junk interspersed through all my good mail, but if you prefer this then switch Junk controls off.
The purpose of holding them in Junk is to allow the user to check them in case a good email gets put there for various reasons and then they can select the email and state it is not junk, so helping to train the Junk Controls. Then any good emails stand out and are easily collected.
But yes, you have to consider that it is a valuable folder and actually look at it. I check on a daily basis and empty the junk. It is much easier and quicker to check a smaller list than wait for it to accumulate.
You can turn off Junk Controls.
Tools > Account Settings > Junk Settings for the mail account
or
Menu icon > Options > Account Settings > Junk Settings for the mail account
uncheck 'Enable adaptive junk mail controls'
If you never want your manual selection of Junk to go to account Junk folder.
uncheck 'Move new junk messages to'
Click on 'Global Junk Preferences' button
if you still want to be able to manually mark as junk,
select 'when I mark messages as junk'
If you wish you could select 'Delete them' instead of using the accounts Junk folder.
click on all OK's to close and save changes.
If you have all your mail going to eg :Inbox
Make sure you create folders to organise your mail. It is advisable to keep the Inbox low in email numbers and use it as an Inbox for incoming mail and not as a general storage. Compact on a regular basis to remove all traces of marked as deleted emails.
Have fun :)