Outlook.com – Linking to Hotmail’s Junk Folder

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How would I create a link that takes a given user, who is logged in to Hotmail in their browser, straight to their Hotmail's junk folder?

We're a new website and we send out a verification code via email, but Hotmail users have trouble finding our mail because it usually lands in the spam folder (and no, we're not spamming at all). In Gmail for instance it's pretty easy to link to a search in:all so the user will find it even if it's sorted in spam.

Best Answer

It looks like the Junk folder ID is 5 (fid=5).

You can use this link:

https://mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=1&fid=5

I modified the n variable to be sure that it wasn't required to be specific because it was a longer number when I first logged in.

Also note, there is a number of subdomains that they'll be redirected to, but it looks like whether they are logged into their account or not they'll land in their junk folder. I tried this on an incognito window to be sure it worked and was redirected to the junk folder.

just for notation sake, the original link looked like this:

http://bl174w.blu174.mail.live.com/default.aspx#!/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=1217260055!n=1466329077&fid=5