Does Entourage 'learn' what is junk?

[Pauline Wallin]

Question: Is Entourage capable of "learning" what is junk?

My webmail, "Fusemail," does a pretty good job of filtering spam. When I
first started using fusemail, I was getting quite a bit of spam, but there
was an option to designate email as spam, so that the program could "learn"
what is junk.

After a couple of weeks I noticed that more spam mail was being
automatically redirected to the junk folder, and that fewer messages were
erroneously discarded by the program. Thus, it "learned" on the basis of my
actions.

On my POP mail I updated to Entourage 2004 about a month ago. It doesn't
seem to be "learning" anything. There is no decrease in junk mail in my
inbox, even though I have set the filter on high and I methodically go
through the inbox and send spam to the junk mail folder.

Does anyone know if Entourage is programmed to learn? If not, I might as
well just send spam directly to the Deleted items, and/or make some rules to
catch incoming spam.

Pauline

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Question: Is Entourage capable of "learning" what is junk?

My webmail, "Fusemail," does a pretty good job of filtering spam. When I
first started using fusemail, I was getting quite a bit of spam, but there
was an option to designate email as spam, so that the program could "learn"
what is junk.

After a couple of weeks I noticed that more spam mail was being
automatically redirected to the junk folder, and that fewer messages were
erroneously discarded by the program. Thus, it "learned" on the basis of my
actions.

On my POP mail I updated to Entourage 2004 about a month ago. It doesn't
seem to be "learning" anything. There is no decrease in junk mail in my
inbox, even though I have set the filter on high and I methodically go
through the inbox and send spam to the junk mail folder.

Does anyone know if Entourage is programmed to learn? If not, I might as
well just send spam directly to the Deleted items, and/or make some rules to
catch incoming spam.

Pauline

No, Entourage does not have a Bayesian , or learning, spam filter,

The spam detector (the Junk Mail Filter) is occasionally updated by
Microsoft based on the huge amounts of spam that flow through hotmail. There
have been at least two updates to the JMF in E2004, and it does a fairly
good job. I would suspect there will be a new update in the SR2 update that
is due out later this year.