Office 2003 Trial -- Mark spam as Junk?

[Brian]

I thought Office 2003 was supposed to be better at stopping spam...
I have it set to High but I still get garbage in my Inbox. There
doesn't seem to be a way to mark said Inbox mail as "Junk" -- so
how can Office "learn" that it is? Does moving it to the "Junk
E-Mail" folder teach it?

 

[Edwin Verhulsel]

Hi Brian,

in Office 2003 you should right-mouse-click the mail which is junk to you,
move over the option *Junkmail* in the list that appears. There you can
select several options line for example adding the sender to your
junkmaillist.

Kind regards
Edwin

"Brian" schreef:

 

[Brian]

in Office 2003 you should right-mouse-click the mail which is junk to
you, move over the option *Junkmail* in the list that appears. There
you can select several options line for example adding the sender to
your junkmaillist.

But adding the sender is useless as it's all fake addresses. Isn't there a way for Office to "learn" that the mail is junk, sort of
like how Yahoo has a button called "This is spam" ? I don't want a list of a million fake addresses. Here's one such address:
(e-mail address removed). There is no point in adding this because it's very unlikely to receive mail from this "sender" again.

 

[Brian]

Try using SpamBayes in addition to Outlook's junk mail filtering.

So I am right: Outlook STILL can't do it alone? Wow. I'd have thought
the jump from Office 2000 to Office 2003 would have had SpamBayes-type
protection built-in by now... I guess not. Such a shame. One of the
biggest reasons I am trialling 2003 is because of the new "junk mail"
features -- but they seem just as useless as ever. Won't be too much
of a burden going back to 2000 after 60 days then.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Not what I was saying. I always use a multi-layer defense since as fast as
Outlook learns, the spammers change their tactics. Just like I use an AV
and hardware and software firewalls. Muttilayer defenses are always better
than single.

Do what you wish - I don't care. Just remember that Outlook is a product
designed primarily for corporations where spam filtering is done at the
gateway and on Exchange. Don't expect it to be 100% effective out of the
box.


--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Brian asked:

| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
|
|| Try using SpamBayes in addition to Outlook's junk mail filtering.
|
| So I am right: Outlook STILL can't do it alone? Wow. I'd have
| thought the jump from Office 2000 to Office 2003 would have had
| SpamBayes-type protection built-in by now... I guess not. Such a
| shame. One of the biggest reasons I am trialling 2003 is because of
| the new "junk mail" features -- but they seem just as useless as
| ever. Won't be too much of a burden going back to 2000 after 60 days
| then.

 

[Brian]

Do what you wish - I don't care. Just remember that Outlook is a
product designed primarily for corporations where spam filtering is
done at the gateway and on Exchange. Don't expect it to be 100%
effective out of the box.

I see. I was not aware of that. Thanks for the clarification.