For home users or corporate users without any spam filtering at the server-level, the Microsoft Junk Email filter for Outlook 2003 does a remarkable job of stopping spam email without catching any ham (valid) email. Even though it rarely catches more than 60% off incoming spam, the previous factor plus its low-maintenance filtering that doesn’t ever require training or retraining and never “decides” to label everything as spam makes it worthwhile to keep turned on.

The two big downfalls with this client-side filter are: It needs to be manually updated, since Microsoft hasn’t added non-security Office Updates to WindowsUpdate; the major search engines don’t update frequently enough to help in finding Outlook junk email filter updates until they’re two months old…

Anyway, there’s a new update for June 2005.

One Response to “New Outlook Junk Email Filter Update, June 2005”

1. Outlook 2003 Junk Mail Filter Update and Much Better List of New Outlook Updates by Mr. Tweak - Windows Network & Admin Tweaks, on September 6th, 2005 at 9:19 pm, said:
   

   […] After complaining last month that it’s near-impossible to find new Microsoft updates, since a Microsoft.com search returns bad results and the big engines don’t update often enough, I’ve found a better list of Outlook updates. The official Office site lists all Outlook 2003 updates on one page. Of course, it’s going to be difficult to find the page in already busy Favorites or desktop search result lists… […]

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