Ive been using the outlook plugin version of this for a few weeks now.  If you hate spam as much as I do, and want a decent solution, get it.  Its very reliable and you dont have to go through some other stupid provider that turns around and spams everyone you add.

After the intial setup it works excellent. From this morning:  Inbox: 3, Possible Spam: 5, Spam: 75.  After a quick review of the contents of the Spam folder I noticed it was perfect!  Not a single error.  Excellent job.  My new best friend.

2 Comments

• Scott Galloway said Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:20:00 AM

  Have you ever tried SpamNet from Cloudmark - it has a pretty unique way of tackling spam - human filters. Basically it works as a peer-to-peer network (with trust relationships) - one person in the network reports a message as spam - depending on how many people report it as spam (and the trust level of the individuals reporting the message), it will then become marked as spam. I've been using it since the first beta, having used pretty much every other attempt at this previously, I have to say, it's been the most effective I've encountered - close to 99% of span caught and 0 false positives (you can optionally allow all messages from certain users, your favourite newsletter etc...

• Rob Chartier said Sunday, June 8, 2003 3:48:00 PM

  After going through the initial process of setting up filters, etc.. I did notice that outlook didnt want to unload. I just gave it time and eventually it did unload. I had assume that SpamBayes needed to do its work to persist the filter data, etc..
  
  I also noticed that forcing Outlook to close does not agree with SpamBays at all. You have to retrain.