Have you tried to change the filter to exclusive and delete later so that all mail except from contacts goes to the junk folder.
..winston

"BjornB" wrote in message ups.com...
:I never see anything in the junk mail folder on www.hotmail.com, unless
: it is the occasional spam from the Inbox that I have then marked as
: such. These stick around in the junk mail folder until I delete them.
: So this is how I know that nothing reaches the junk mail folder.
:
: My settings on www.hotmail.com are "delete later", that is move to junk
: mail folder. It makes no difference whether I use the "obvious junk" or
: "most junk" settings. The settings are verified as OK by MS support.
:
: I have set up a couple of custom filters through www.Hotmail, but those
: are only for forcing mails to end up in Inbox (e.g. "everything from
: ends-with .se"). But I'm not sure they're working as intended, so I
: will now try to delete these in case they are messing things up. Will
: followup if this fixes things.
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