I can completely agree with that about Googlemail, brilliant, no spam at all comes through it.Bob i dont use Yahoo/Hotmail & Windows live mail, I've been online since 1999 & thats more than majority of people i know,i have however learned some valuable lessons and they are to avoid the above Clients they are known to sell email addresses to companies so everyone takes a load of spam! its how they can afford to keep the sites running & that is why its hard and complicated to stop them as the companies DONT want you to block em! i can however tell you after all these years the best FREE company who i get 100% no spam from and its a much easier iface to change/work with & that is Googlemail. Also avoid a company called "Mail.com" they are horrendous!! (See reviews) so what i am kindly saying is you maybe need to look at transferring your contacts to a new account/Email client (Thats what i recommend) or try these commands:
Click the icon at top left and then under Options select Safety Options. Lots of configuration in the various tabs
Untick "Automatic Filtering" & configure it yourself that way you can dictate what emails get through to you & review all the options you can...best of luck...