Question: Is Entourage capable of "learning" what is junk?

My webmail, "Fusemail," does a pretty good job of filtering spam. When I
first started using fusemail, I was getting quite a bit of spam, but there
was an option to designate email as spam, so that the program could "learn"
what is junk.

After a couple of weeks I noticed that more spam mail was being
automatically redirected to the junk folder, and that fewer messages were
erroneously discarded by the program. Thus, it "learned" on the basis of my
actions.

On my POP mail I updated to Entourage 2004 about a month ago. It doesn't
seem to be "learning" anything. There is no decrease in junk mail in my
inbox, even though I have set the filter on high and I methodically go
through the inbox and send spam to the junk mail folder.

Does anyone know if Entourage is programmed to learn? If not, I might as
well just send spam directly to the Deleted items, and/or make some rules to
catch incoming spam.

Pauline

Re: Does Entourage 'learn' what is junk? by Barry

Barry
Wed Aug 31 12:24:26 CDT 2005

On 31/8/05 18:18, in article BF3B5EA3.70A7%pwallin@paonline.com, "Pauline
Wallin" <pwallin@paonline.com> wrote:

> Question: Is Entourage capable of "learning" what is junk?
>
> My webmail, "Fusemail," does a pretty good job of filtering spam. When I
> first started using fusemail, I was getting quite a bit of spam, but there
> was an option to designate email as spam, so that the program could "learn"
> what is junk.
>
> After a couple of weeks I noticed that more spam mail was being
> automatically redirected to the junk folder, and that fewer messages were
> erroneously discarded by the program. Thus, it "learned" on the basis of my
> actions.
>
> On my POP mail I updated to Entourage 2004 about a month ago. It doesn't
> seem to be "learning" anything. There is no decrease in junk mail in my
> inbox, even though I have set the filter on high and I methodically go
> through the inbox and send spam to the junk mail folder.
>
> Does anyone know if Entourage is programmed to learn? If not, I might as
> well just send spam directly to the Deleted items, and/or make some rules to
> catch incoming spam.
>
> Pauline
>

No, Entourage does not have a Bayesian , or learning, spam filter,

The spam detector (the Junk Mail Filter) is occasionally updated by
Microsoft based on the huge amounts of spam that flow through hotmail. There
have been at least two updates to the JMF in E2004, and it does a fairly
good job. I would suspect there will be a new update in the SR2 update that
is due out later this year.

--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>