Windows Mail Outlook Electronic Spam Filtering Techniques And Settings
Do you use Windows Live Mail, Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express? Having problem with spam emails reaching your inbox? How do you filter out these unwanted spam mail? Help keep spam out of your inbox by using the e-mail software with built-in spam filtering function. Microsoft SmartScreen is an intelligent spam-filtering solution that is integrated across all Microsoft e-mail platforms, including:
- Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
- Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
- Windows Live Hotmail
- Windows Live Mail
- Windows Mail
According to Microsoft, SmartScreen technology comes with an artificial intelligence that is able to determine how to distinguish between legitimate e-mail messages and spam by using extensive user input from hundreds of thousands of MSN Hotmail and Windows Live Hotmail users. Try the following spam filtering techniques and settings, it is the official spam filter:
If you menu bar doesn’t show in Windows Live Mail, try unhide it as shown in the screenshot above.
As shown in the screenshot above, I find the the best filter is to block language that you don’t understand, for instant Russian, Mandarin, Japanese and more. Based on years of trial and error, and being the owner of hotmail, the result is that more legitimate e-mails reach you and upwards of 95% spam is blocked.
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With a few blogs to maintain, finally I’ve given up on deleting comment spam manually. I’ve been receiving approximately 100 comment spam per day for the past few months. I’’ve just installed the Akismet plugins for the first time. I’ll give a report after a day or two on Akismet performance and how good is it an catching spams.
Unlike Blogger.com, Wordpress don’t have the Captcha feature installed by default. I hope that future Wordpress would have this feature come by default, chances are it won’t happen. One of the main reason being is that Wordpress is an Automattic production and so is Akismet. If Word verification is installed by default, Akismet won’t be making any money at all from Wordpress.
According to Wikipedia, Spam is a canned meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation in (among other places) Austin, Minnesota, USA (aka Spam Town USA). Well, Spam is a food, but how in the world did the word Spam got associated with electronic flooding? Wikipedia has an interesting article on the origin of the name for electronic spam.
As spammers continue to advance their tools and try to attack your business blog from new angles, your diligence will be required. Comment spam is a fact of life if you have a blog.
No plugins is 100% accurate in filtering spams, except for one. Yes, you heard me saying it loud and clear. There is one way of achieving 100% accuracy. No plugins required, simply disable comment feature. Problem solve. :)
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