MS Outlook filters

[theFijian]

MS Outlook has a filters.txt file which holds all the rules for the Junk e-mail and Adult content rules. The idea is that you create rules and this stops spam and suchlike. The only problem is it's rubbish, unless you can be bothered to create loads (and I mean loads) of rules. Are there any websites you can get some decent ready-made rules for the filters.txt file?

cheers!

Andy

 

[pgp_protector]

Qualcom.com

Drop MS Outlook / Outlook express and get somthing else. I use Eudora, and Love it.

As for your real question, sorry cant help you there, I stoped Outlook a few years ago.

 

[godscreation8888]

Yup, there are many GNU licensed software out there that are way better than Outlook, consider looking around the internet, because Outlook has to be the worst email client ever, easy to hack and stuff.

 

[loribee59]

Qualcom.com

Drop MS Outlook / Outlook express and get somthing else. I use Eudora, and Love it.

As for your real question, sorry cant help you there, I stoped Outlook a few years ago.

I used to have Eudora one time~ that was over 5 years ago....have they improved the client so that it looks/acts like Outlook/OE? Can they send/recieve images? How about the size of emails? I'm still using OE 6, with Mailwasher as my spam bouncer. I'm looking into other email clients, like Thunderbird and such, before I decide on which clients will work for me.

~loribee59

 

[QuePasa]

You could use Mozilla Thunderbird, which has some decent filters built in, but my favorite has been the Spambayes plugin for outlook. Google for it, it's awesome and does an excellent job of classifying mail and integrates right into outlook.

 

[Stryper]

do not use mozilla thunderbird if you need spam filters.

it was rated the worst by pcworld. outlook was the best with 99% of junk mail.

 

[loribee59]

You could use Mozilla Thunderbird, which has some decent filters built in, but my favorite has been the Spambayes plugin for outlook. Google for it, it's awesome and does an excellent job of classifying mail and integrates right into outlook.

Spambayes....is it FREE?

~loribee59

 

[Morrog]

it was rated the worst by pcworld. outlook was the best with 99% of junk mail.

...I hope you're joking. I really am. Outlook couldn't catch spam if it's life depended on it...and it's life does depend on it.

Thunderbird catches 90% of my spam. I've also added smut filters to get rid of nasty message immediately.

 

[QuePasa]

Thunderbird does do a kind of crummy job for me, I haven't gone a day yet where all my spam was correctly classified yet. The spambayes plugin did really well when I had it, it caught 99.999% of junk mail after about 5 days of training it. Yes, spambayes is free.

http://spambayes.sf.net