Junk Email Reporting Tool for Outlook

Dealing with spam in Microsoft Outlook used to be a pretty big problem. Outlook has had the "Junk Mail" feature forever, but until Outlook 2003 it was pretty terrible at comprehensively eliminating spam from your inbox. Outlook 2003, however, is a different beast when it comes to spam detection and elimination. In fact, it's gotten so good that I no longer advocate running a third-party spam filter in Outlook.

Part of the reason it's so good now is the ability of users to report email as spam back to FrontBridge, which is owned by Microsoft. FrontBridge will then analyze the reported email and if they determine that it is in fact spam, it will be added to their signatures to ensure the best protection possible for all Outlook users.

If you happen to be an Outlook user, I'd suggest setting your Junk Mail detection settings to High, and remember to scan your Junk Mail folder for the occasional non-spam message that gets filtered there. In my opinion, it's faster to scan through a folder of spam looking for an occasional message that you'd like to keep than it is to constantly have to be weeding out spam from your inbox.

To take part in reporting junk mail back to Microsoft, download the Junk Email Reporting Tool (which thankfully doesn't require you to run the "Windows Genuine dis-Advantage" utility).

[Via Windows Fanatics]

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