Your Outlook.com inbox, finally peaceful.

Yes, when the address is a Microsoft account. Microsoft groups them with Outlook.com: “If you’re using an Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, or MSN account, please go to the Outlook.com tab.” (Microsoft Support, “Manage email messages by using rules in Outlook”, read 28 October 2026)

No. Cleaned emails move to your Deleted Items folder. On Outlook.com, “Email is automatically deleted from your Deleted Items folder after 30 days.” and “Items removed from your Deleted Items folder are recoverable for 30 days.” (Microsoft Support, “Recover and restore deleted items in Outlook”, read 28 October 2026)

Not straight away. Microsoft: “The Deleted Items folder does count against your mailbox storage quota until it is manually emptied or the emails are automatically deleted after 30 days, whichever happens first.” (Microsoft Support, “Storage limits in Outlook.com”, read 28 October 2026) The app never empties Deleted Items for you; that step is yours, in Outlook.com.

No. It asks Microsoft for headers only — sender, subject, date and unsubscribe information — never message bodies or attachments.

Usually, if your organisation allows it. Microsoft lets users consent to an app for permissions that do not need an administrator — “By default, all users are allowed to consent to applications for permissions that don’t require administrator consent.” — but an administrator can change that setting (Microsoft Learn, “Configure how users consent to applications”, read 28 October 2026). If yours has, the app shows a link you can send to your IT admin. Their page is For IT admins.

Outlook.com has no such tabs to read from. It has Focused Inbox instead: “Focused Inbox separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused and Other.” (Microsoft Support, “Focused Inbox for Outlook”, read 28 October 2026) So on Outlook.com the dashboard shows how much mail sits in Other, and when Focused Inbox is off it shows an estimate of the bulk mail it detected on your device.

They stay. An auto-trash rule is an ordinary Inbox rule in your own mailbox, so it keeps running until you delete it. In Outlook.com: “At the top of the page, select Settings”, then “Select Mail > Rules.” and “In the rule you want to delete, select More actions (⋯) > Delete rule” (Microsoft Support, “Manage email messages by using rules in Outlook”, read 28 October 2026). The app names its rules “Auto-trash:” followed by the address, so they are easy to find.

The same way as on Gmail: the app uses the unsubscribe method the sender declares in its own List-Unsubscribe header — a standard one-click request where the sender supports it, the sender’s own page otherwise, or a pre-filled email as a last resort. The sender processes the request; the app makes it one tap.