The MS Exchange/Outlook junk mail filters aren't very good, are they?

Question

It only seems to care if the mail comes from a known bad address, and that's pretty easy to spoof. The virus scanner picks up the really harmful ones OK but the endless v!@gr# offers do annoy me. Any way to beef it up? It's an office system and I'm not about to change platform...

Answer 1

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

Popfile is an advanced email filter/rules app that classifies your mail based on training - it learns from the way you sort your mail.

give it a go!

Answer 2

Hi,

One thing is for sure. Spam is here to stay. Its only that some servers have a better bit of luck than others. As long as the internet is giving free access to all spam can't be eliminated. Spam filters are only a set of rules that have been set based on previous experience of some people. Unfortunately spammers are innovative but anti-spamers can't be so. They MUST wait for the spammers innovations in order to counter them. So every now & then these spam mails keep slipping through. In case of some servers such as hotmail & yahoo this would be more frequent because these servers have been around for a longer period of time. Spammers works on a database of email ids. They simply pick ids from a randomly generated list. The number of hits they get is based on luck, They have a better chance of hitting the jackpot with hotmail & yahoo because lotsa people have been using these services for a lot of time now.

Thanks & Regards
Vinod

Answer 3

The built in filters are only as good as the rules you create. Perhaps you can install mailwasher, which is good, but it would be better if your company used a commercial anti-spam/anti-virus solution.