Hi,
no, Entourage's filters do not learn what's spam and what isn't. The
criteria for spam are built into Entourage and are presumably updated with
each Office update. What you can do, however, is make use of Entourage's
rules to mark messages as junk mail before they hit your inbox. For
instance, you can tell Entourage to automatically mark messages that contain
attached .exe files as junk, and so on. If you need any help with the
configuration of rules, post back and ask.
Hitting the Junk button on Entourage's toolbar marks the message as junk,
moves it to the junk mail folder and removes the sender's email address from
the MRU list (Most Recently Used, aka. the AutoComplete feature when you
type in addresses in a new Entourage message), so from that point of view,
you could say that Entourage has some minimal learning capacities, but as
I've said, you'd better use the built-in junk filter in combination with
rules, safe domains, which can be found under Tools>Junk E-Mail Protection,
and the Mailing List Manager, in case you're subscribed to mailing lists.
One final random piece of information: if you add a contact to your address
book, their messages will never be marked as junk.
Michel
