I speak with confidence when I say SpamBayes is perhaps the best spam prevention tool available for Outlook. SpamBayes is an Outlook plugin which implements a learning algorithm to constantly be adapting to both your email habits and new spam threats and features:
- 100% Free.
- Spam detection is based on your email habits. Rules are not determined by a subscription or what the community determines to be spam.
- Works in Exchange environments! All processing is done on the Outlook client, so there is no burden or installation needed on the server.
- Works with POP3 and IMAP configurations.
- Customizable tiered detection (Spam, Suspect, and Not Spam) which can be directed to different Outlook folders.
- Toolbar buttons to easily flag messages as Spam and Not Spam.
- You can “train” SpamBayes based on email already in your Inbox and Junk Folders so you can hit the ground running.
I have now been using it for over a year (with no other spam protection) and I have had, literally, zero spam burdens using the default settings. I get, perhaps 3 spam emails a week which slip into my Inbox and the rest are caught with no false positives at all. People I work with also rave about how awesome this plugin is as well. In fact, it is the only thing we use in our company for spam protection.
I know a tip regarding this ran a while ago but I do think it is deserving of another post. If you use Outlook and don’t already have SpamBayes, go get it!
Jason Faulkner is the man who brings you our daily tips. He is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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