Is there any good spam filtering software for Outlook?

[Sunner]

Our office recently upgraded to Office 2003.
Aside from the fact that Outlook 2003 generally sucks, I was actually quite interested in this upgrade since I heard it now has a spamfilter.
However, it turns out that sucks as well, so I guess I'm stuck with Spambayes for now, unfortunately that sucks as well.

Basically, I'm wondering if there's anything for Outlook that's even remotely close to the Mozilla spam filter?

 

[Modeps]

Spambayes

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Spambayes

That's where the "Spambayes sucks" and "comes remotely close to Mozilla" part of my post comes in.

 

[Sunner]

Bumpedy...

 

[John]

All spam filters have issues. I find the filter in OL 2003 to be quite effective. Have you tried adjusting the filter options?

actions > junk e-mail > junk e-mail options

 

[Schadenfroh]

Spam Fighter

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: John
All spam filters have issues. I find the filter in OL 2003 to be quite effective. Have you tried adjusting the filter options?

actions > junk e-mail > junk e-mail options

Yeah, tried messing around a bit, couldn't make it work in any particurarly useful way :/
Mozilla's is about as perfect as it gets for me, it learns fast and is extremely accurate.

Schaden, thanks for the tip, I'll try it out

 

[Ryland]

I will second SpamBayes. It has worked fine once it was properly trained.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Ryland
I will second SpamBayes. It has worked fine once it was properly trained.

Never seemed to learn much for me.
After like 6 months of training it still let's some junk through and tags legit messages as spam.
Mozilla/Thunderbird achieves better results after like 2 weeks of training.

If only we didn't run that POS Exchange at work I'd use Mozilla all the time :/

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Spam Fighter

:thumbsup:

Never had 1 false positive on the normal default sensitivity. Over 90% of the incoming spam is blocked.

 

[pontifex]

i use ihatespam by sunbelt software. doesn't seem to work very well though.

 

[Ryland]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: Ryland
I will second SpamBayes. It has worked fine once it was properly trained.

Never seemed to learn much for me.
After like 6 months of training it still let's some junk through and tags legit messages as spam.
Mozilla/Thunderbird achieves better results after like 2 weeks of training.

If only we didn't run that POS Exchange at work I'd use Mozilla all the time :/

Thats odd. I have been using it since beta and it only occasionally will list a non-spam message as "Possible Spam". It hasn't listed a non-spam as Spam on from what I can remember.

 

[Fiveohhh]

Spambayes works well for me as well except theres one that keeps getting through, its just a smal embedded image and it gets through everytime. I'm probably going to rearrange my email accts to get rid of my spam though.

 

[Feneant2]

I use Spampal myself. It worked very well for a while but for some reason recently a lot of messages have started sneaking in.

 

[Texun]

It's 0415 and I have nothing better to do than revive an old thread so here goes....

I used Spambayes and hated it. Switched to PopFile and haven't had a problem since. PopFile works on the same principal as Spambayes but you have more control. Spambayes assumes too much which made it a hassle for me to mess with. PopFile takes training. Anything that is going to be effective will need to learn what email you want and don't want. I've been using it since July and it is now above 99% accurate. It needs so little tweaking now that I forget I even have it.


Classification Accuracy
Messages classified: 6,920
Classification errors: 66
Accuracy: 99.04%

(Last Reset: Mon Jul 4 19:18:53 2005 )

I use one filter in Outlook to trap all messages flagged as spam and send them to the trash.

It's free. No nagware of any kind.

 

[corkyg]

The best SPAM filters today are those provided by your ISP. In spite of all of the mythical negatives proclaimed by "geeks anonymous" - the absolute best is AOL, believe it or not. They have always allowed a user to create a white list only mailbox. That results in ZERO spam unless you get some forwarded by a friend on the list.

My ISP just changed from Postini to Nationwide. Nationwide uses Can-It by Roaringpenguins Software. It is very powerful and has a very good user controlled option. Example - I currently have 206 DOMAINS on my auto-reject list.

These also block viruses and trojans, so your on-board A/V system is a second tier defense.

This way it really doesn't matter what mail program you use - the SPAM is blocked at your POP3 box.