How does Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter rate with 3rd-party spam-filtering software???

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I was wondering if anyone knows of how well Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter
w/SmartScreen Technology rates alongside other 3rd-party spam-filtering
software?

I've been using Outlook 2003 for about 4 months and it seems to do a pretty good
job of filtering my junk email. I used to get around 100 spam emails a day
(unfiltered) but now Outlook 2003 filters out all except 10-20% of them. I
havent had any false positives yet since I have the setting on "Low Protection".
I will try to adjust that to "High Protection" soon to see if it catches more
junk email, although it will probably increase the false positives.

I am tempted to try some other 3rd-party spam-filtering software that is
compatible with Outlook 2003, such as Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro - both of
which are highly rated by independent lab testing. Anyone out there tried these
products and been more satisfied than Outlook's Junk E-mail Filter? Let me
know!
 
I was wondering if anyone knows of how well Outlook 2003 Junk E-mail Filter
w/SmartScreen Technology rates alongside other 3rd-party spam-filtering
software?

I've been using Outlook 2003 for about 4 months and it seems to do a pretty good
job of filtering my junk email. I used to get around 100 spam emails a day
(unfiltered) but now Outlook 2003 filters out all except 10-20% of them. I
havent had any false positives yet since I have the setting on "Low Protection".
I will try to adjust that to "High Protection" soon to see if it catches more
junk email, although it will probably increase the false positives.

I am tempted to try some other 3rd-party spam-filtering software that is
compatible with Outlook 2003, such as Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro - both of
which are highly rated by independent lab testing. Anyone out there tried these
products and been more satisfied than Outlook's Junk E-mail Filter? Let me
know!
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I use the "High" protection level in Outlook 2003 and have stopped using all
other anti-spam programs, after having used MailWasher Pro quite happily for
a long time. I find Outlook 2003's Junk Email Filtering works *very* well.

After downloading version 4 of iHateSpam, I was asked by Sunbelt Software
what my opinion was of their new version. Twice, I asked what benefit their
software had over Outlook 2003's Junk Email Filtering and never got a
response. I guess there isn't any added benefit.
--
<<<SgtRich>>>

Email Client: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
News Client (Text): Forté Agent 2.0 www.forteinc.com
News Client (Binaries): News Rover 9.2 www.newsrover.com
 
I did some testing last fall with Outlook 2003 vs. 2 other spam filters,
each processing the same test corpus of about 3500 items that were mostly
spam. Outlook on High did the best, followed by Norton Antispam (which I had
lots of problems with) and SpamNet. Outlook on Low caught only 77%, but that
of course was before the spam filter updates that Microsoft has since
provided.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I use the "High" protection level in Outlook 2003 and have stopped using all
other anti-spam programs, after having used MailWasher Pro quite happily for
a long time. I find Outlook 2003's Junk Email Filtering works *very* well.

After downloading version 4 of iHateSpam, I was asked by Sunbelt Software
what my opinion was of their new version. Twice, I asked what benefit their
software had over Outlook 2003's Junk Email Filtering and never got a
response. I guess there isn't any added benefit.
Click to expand...

Did you ever use Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro? Those two apps seem to be
highly praised by several independent testing labs.
 
I did some testing last fall with Outlook 2003 vs. 2 other spam filters,
each processing the same test corpus of about 3500 items that were mostly
spam. Outlook on High did the best, followed by Norton Antispam (which I had
lots of problems with) and SpamNet. Outlook on Low caught only 77%, but that
of course was before the spam filter updates that Microsoft has since
provided.
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Were those 3rd-party filters Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro? Those seem to be
the two most popular filters out there that are compatible with Outlook 2003.

I just downloaded the new filter update from Microsoft....is it a significant
improvement? Does SmartScreen really "learn" how to detect spam?
 
Did you ever use Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro? Those two apps seem to be
highly praised by several independent testing labs.
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No, I've never tried either of those. As I said, I'm very happy with Outlook
2003's Junk mail filtering.
--
<<<SgtRich>>>

Email Client: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
News Client (Text): Forté Agent 2.0 www.forteinc.com
News Client (Binaries): News Rover 9.2 www.newsrover.com
 
No, the "learning" is done at Microsoft using very high volumes of mail, way
beyond what the individual user gets, and then is incorporated into each
update.
 
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