If anyone is looking for a good alternative for Outlook: I'm still using Eudora http://www.eudora.com/ as mail client program (from way back before Outlook became the standard) and lately I decided to start paying for it so I could use the build-in anti-junk filter and it works very well.
It costs $40 per year, so about $0.11 a day and it's very easy to earn that back because of the time and annoyance it saves. I got convinced to start paying for it by the free: http://www.spampal.net/ This stand-alone program (which has to be installed as a local POP server) also uses Bayesian filtering (amongst other methods) and it worked so well that I guessed that it would even work better when it was integrated with the email client itself. The problem with two separate programs was that Spampal couldn't learn from what I did with the mails in Eudora. In Eudora I can now say that a certain mail is junk and it will be put in the junk map, but Eudora also uses it to fine-tune it's Bayesian filters. Of course it's also possible to declare a falsily filtered out junk message as non-junk and it will be removed from the junk folder and the filters will also be adjusted and the sender will be put on the white-list of senders, so their mail won't be filtered out again. What is a Bayesian filter: Every word gets a certain junk-score. Some words like 'viagra' and 'morgage' will be much more likely to appear in spam messages and others will not. Every message coming in is separated in words and every word is multiplied with the word's junk-score and a total score for the whole message is determined and everything which scores above a certain threshold (usually 60..80%) will be considered to be junk. Greetings, Jaap -- Chip Directory -- http://www.chipdir.biz/ -- http://www.chipdir.info/ -- http://www.chipdir.net/ -- http://www.chipdir.nl/ -- http://www.chipdir.org/ -- And about 30 other mirror sites world-wide. -- -- To subscribe to a free 'chip issues, questions and answers' -- mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with -- in the body 'subscribe chipdir-L'. About 500 experts are -- willing to think with you about electronics problems etc. -- Author: Jaap van Ganswijk INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
