How does the junk-filter in entourage work?

J

Joerg Lorenz

I started using entourage (Office 2004) recently. Now I'm wondering how
the junk-filter works.

What I would particurlarly like to know is, whether the filter has a
learning function built in (Bayes-Filter).

The filter ist doing OK but is far from perfect.

Joerg
 
M

Michel Bintener

Hi,
the Entourage filter is not Bayesian; its junk definitions depend on updates
which Microsoft issues from time to time. Clicking on the junk button only
classifies a message as junk and moves it to the Junk E-Mail folder; it
doesn't teach Entourage that similar messages should be classified as junk,
too. You'll have to do that yourself, by selecting one of the options in the
dialogue that shows up at this place, or by creating rules.

You can find out more on the Entourage Help Page,
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/junk/index.html>
and you might want to look specifically at the Junk Mail Filter Basics
section,
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/junk/basics.html>.

Michel
 
J

Joerg Lorenz

Michel said:
Hi,
the Entourage filter is not Bayesian; its junk definitions depend on updates
which Microsoft issues from time to time. Clicking on the junk button only
classifies a message as junk and moves it to the Junk E-Mail folder; it
doesn't teach Entourage that similar messages should be classified as junk,
too. You'll have to do that yourself, by selecting one of the options in the
dialogue that shows up at this place, or by creating rules.

You can find out more on the Entourage Help Page,
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/junk/index.html>
and you might want to look specifically at the Junk Mail Filter Basics
section,
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/rules/junk/basics.html>.

Michel
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Thanks a lot Michel. That helped!

Have a nice Weekend

Joerg
 
B

Barry Wainwright [MVP]

Clicking on the junk button only
classifies a message as junk and moves it to the Junk E-Mail folder; it
doesn't teach Entourage that similar messages should be classified as junk,
too.
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It does one other thing as well - it removes that address form the 'most
recently used' list of addresses that pops up when you start to address an
email.
 
D

Diane Ross

the Entourage filter is not Bayesian; its junk definitions depend on updates
which Microsoft issues from time to time. Clicking on the junk button only
classifies a message as junk and moves it to the Junk E-Mail folder; it
doesn't teach Entourage that similar messages should be classified as junk,
too. You'll have to do that yourself, by selecting one of the options in the
dialogue that shows up at this place, or by creating rules.
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You might want to look at SpamSieve <http://c-command.com/spamsieve/>

I uses Bayesian spam filtering.
 
C

Corentin Cras-Méneur

Diane Ross said:
You might want to look at SpamSieve <http://c-command.com/spamsieve/>

I uses Bayesian spam filtering.
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Terrific software!! It takes a lttle time to train it (not so long
considering the volume of Spam I receive :-> ) and then it detects
almost everything. I almost never have problems with false positives
either,


Corentin
 
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