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

[TJM]

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!

 

[SgtRich]

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 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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

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

 

[TJM]

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.

Did you ever use Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro? Those two apps seem to be
highly praised by several independent testing labs.

 

[TJM]

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.

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?

 

[SgtRich]

Did you ever use Spam Inspector and SpamEater Pro? Those two apps seem to be
highly praised by several independent testing labs.

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

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

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.