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MS Office Forum / Outlook / New Users / July 2004How does Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter rate with 3rd-party spam-filtering software???
I was wondering if anyone knows of how well Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter w/SmartScreen Technology rates alongside other 3rd-party spam-filtering software? I've been using Outlook 2003 for about 4 months and it seems to do a pretty good job of filtering my junk email. I used to get around 100 spam emails a day (unfiltered) but now Outlook 2003 filters out all except 10-20% of them. I havent had any false positives yet since I have the setting on "Low Protection". I will try to adjust that to "High Protection" soon to see if it catches more junk email, although it will probably increase the false positives. I am tempted to try some other 3rd-party spam-filtering software that is compatible with Outlook 2003, such as Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro - both of which are highly rated by independent lab testing. Anyone out there tried these products and been more satisfied than Outlook's Junk E-mail Filter? Let me know! >I was wondering if anyone knows of how well Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter >w/SmartScreen Technology rates alongside other 3rd-party spam-filtering [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >products and been more satisfied than Outlook's Junk E-mail Filter? Let me >know! I use the "High" protection level in Outlook 2003 and have stopped using all other anti-spam programs, after having used MailWasher Pro quite happily for a long time. I find Outlook 2003's Junk Email Filtering works *very* well. After downloading version 4 of iHateSpam, I was asked by Sunbelt Software what my opinion was of their new version. Twice, I asked what benefit their software had over Outlook 2003's Junk Email Filtering and never got a response. I guess there isn't any added benefit.  Signature<<<SgtRich>>> Email Client: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 News Client (Text): Forté Agent 2.0 www.forteinc.com News Client (Binaries): News Rover 9.2 www.newsrover.com I did some testing last fall with Outlook 2003 vs. 2 other spam filters, each processing the same test corpus of about 3500 items that were mostly spam. Outlook on High did the best, followed by Norton Antispam (which I had lots of problems with) and SpamNet. Outlook on Low caught only 77%, but that of course was before the spam filter updates that Microsoft has since provided. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > >I was wondering if anyone knows of how well Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter > >w/SmartScreen Technology rates alongside other 3rd-party spam-filtering [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >products and been more satisfied than Outlook's Junk E-mail Filter? Let me > >know! > I did some testing last fall with Outlook 2003 vs. 2 other spam filters, > each processing the same test corpus of about 3500 items that were mostly > spam. Outlook on High did the best, followed by Norton Antispam (which I had > lots of problems with) and SpamNet. Outlook on Low caught only 77%, but that > of course was before the spam filter updates that Microsoft has since > provided. Were those 3rd-party filters Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro? Those seem to be the two most popular filters out there that are compatible with Outlook 2003. I just downloaded the new filter update from Microsoft....is it a significant improvement? Does SmartScreen really "learn" how to detect spam? No, the "learning" is done at Microsoft using very high volumes of mail, way beyond what the individual user gets, and then is incorporated into each update. SignatureSue Mosher, Outlook MVP Author of Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx > I just downloaded the new filter update from Microsoft....is it a significant > improvement? Does SmartScreen really "learn" how to detect spam? > I use the "High" protection level in Outlook 2003 and have stopped using all > other anti-spam programs, after having used MailWasher Pro quite happily for [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > software had over Outlook 2003's Junk Email Filtering and never got a > response. I guess there isn't any added benefit. Did you ever use Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro? Those two apps seem to be highly praised by several independent testing labs. >> I use the "High" protection level in Outlook 2003 and have stopped using all >> other anti-spam programs, after having used MailWasher Pro quite happily for [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >Did you ever use Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro? Those two apps seem to be >highly praised by several independent testing labs. No, I've never tried either of those. As I said, I'm very happy with Outlook 2003's Junk mail filtering. Signature<<<SgtRich>>> Email Client: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 News Client (Text): Forté Agent 2.0 www.forteinc.com News Client (Binaries): News Rover 9.2 www.newsrover.com |
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