Microsoft Clutter Turning Itself On
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So I got an email from MS Clutter (spam, really) saying that it was a new option for me and that I could turn it on if I wanted. I obviously would never want this, so ignored it. Turns out, though, that contrary to this statement, Clutter was turned on and hijacking my emails! No warning, no info. The only thing that Clutter did correctly was catch any email about Clutter and filter it as spam. That much was true. But this also meant I didn't get the notifications, but that's okay since they were spam. It's a Catch-22 of what appears to be one of the most poorly thought out products ever.
It appears that I was able to turn it off now that I know about it. You have to be in OWA to do so, but I always am so that is not a big deal. But this is pretty ridiculous. Not only is it a horrendous service that produces spam about your spam and increases your total volume of emails but it does so silently, secretly and without warning.
So if you are on Office 365, look for a Clutter spam box and make sure you are getting your emails.
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Keep an eye on it. I've had to turn it off at least twice.
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Any means of blocking it completely?
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Not that I'm aware of. When I see my Clutter box filling up, I just got and turn it off again, lol... I haven't had to do that in several weeks now... So maybe it actually stuck this time, lol.
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Having just reinstalled Windwos 10 cleanly, I had to setup my Outlook accounts. All three of the accounts that use Office365 had Clutter turned on when I had disabled them all once in the past.
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That's three people all having issues with it turning on without permission. Not a good sign.
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@scottalanmiller said:
That's three people all having issues with it turning on without permission. Not a good sign.
The entire @Bundy-Associates organization had it enabled automatically. Probably an subscription level change by MS.
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Having lost a number of messages to Clutter,.. I've searched back and found this to be useful. Clutter is now off,.. until MS decides that I need it again.
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Mine turned on and would not go away, but it seems to handle the Clutter load pretty well, now.
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Sadly I was losing important emails to clutter. I don't care to make my own rules .. so I just turned it off.
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I like Clutter, actually.
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@scottalanmiller said:
then you'll love Outlook.
I do love Outlook, but why do you say that?
I use 2007 and it has nothing like Clutter.
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Because of all of the clutter.
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So a couple months ago I turned off Clutter, again. It turned off... but who knows for how long. Found it today with over seven thousand messages in it. Appears that there is no means of disabling it, but it DOES disable the notifications so you have no idea that things are still going to it or when they start going to it again. Absolute, total fail.
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@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Clutter Turning Itself On:
So a couple months ago I turned off Clutter, again. It turned off... but who knows for how long. Found it today with over seven thousand messages in it. Appears that there is no means of disabling it, but it DOES disable the notifications so you have no idea that things are still going to it or when they start going to it again. Absolute, total fail.
Remote power shell script should still work one would assume.
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You can also use a mail flow rule on the backend to turn it if for everyone.
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That is quite odd... I turned mine off months ago and have not had it turn itself back on.
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We all know Microsoft's servers like to aggravate @scottalanmiller just because they can.
