Re: Junk Filter

Nic Doodson wrote:

> I've recently moved from Office (Outlook) 2007 to Entourage 2008 and
thus
> embraced Mac. So far so good, but one thing that is bugging me is that
the
> Entourage Junk filter doesn't catch about 90% of the junk I get. Outlook
> 2007 got most of it....any suggestions? I've changed the junk filter to
> "High" -- i.e. Catch anything...does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi Nic!

The Entourage Junk E-mail Protection filter is not a learning filter. 
You will have to edit it to include domains you know are sending you 
junk as well as senders.

Also, be sure you use the "Junk" icon to mark messages as junk. This 
will keep their addresses from appearing in your Most Recently Used list.

You can also create rules to automatically mark messages as junk by 
looking for key junk words such as "Rolex" and "Viagra".

Would you be comfortable setting your junk settings to Exclusive? This 
would require you have valid senders' addresses in your Address Book or 
else messages are marked as junk.

Also, look at what your service provider offers for filtering junk mail 
on the server. All E-mail servers should have some sort of filters 
installed to block the majority of junk. I know with my Comcast accounts 
I have to log in to my accounts with a web browser and set the junk 
protection there.

Finally, you could look at a third party solution such as SpamSieve. 
It's a great product from what I've heard from others.

FYI, this newsgroup has been deprecated and replaced with 
microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage. Be sure to post any further 
questions in that group rather than this one. You'll have a lot more 
eyes seeing your messages there.

Hope this helps!

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
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