Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Help! How to Battle Spam with Outlook 2007
I bit the bullet and "upgraded" to Office 2007 Beta 2 yesterday. It's fine - the pretty colors are nice - but now my spam blocking tool doesn't work. I've used SpamBayes for a few years and it's an amazing spam-eating monster. I love(d) it. Unfortunately the spam filters in Outlook 2007 are not nearly as smart and, worst of all, there is no way to "train" them. Another annoyance is that, if I have 50 messages that I want to mark as spam, I have to right click each message individually and click, "Junk Mail -> Add sender to Blocked Senders". Arrgggghhhhh...
Does anyone have a suggestion for spam blocking in Outlook 2007? Whether it's freeware or buyware, I don't care. I check 25 email addresses a day including several catch-all accounts and, if Outlook 2007 can't keep up, I'll have to go back to Outlook 2003 until a new version of Spambayes comes out.
Help!
EDIT: After I posted this, I found Chris Pirillo's "65 Reasons Outlook 2007 Will Suck". I don't care about all the items on his list but I particularly echo his sentiments for #30. My "Block ed Senders List" will be over 1GB by the end of the year if I right clicked on every stupid spam message and blocked the sender lol.
It just seems that Outlook 2007 has no real improvements over Outlook 2003 regarding spam filtering for me.
I use spambayes too, but it does not work anymore on outlook 2007.
You can try this :
http://www.lescasse.com/AntiSpam.asp
I don't know if it works, I'll know it tonight at home !
: 4:07 PM 
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