outlook 2003 and spamming

[giobaxx]

Hallo to everyone

Our IT Manager says the the only use of Outlook 2003(without rules) reduce the spamming until 90%.....i know the it has an anti-spam filter but it's true that the benefit is so high(90%!!!))

AS mail Server we have MICROSOFT ECHANGE 5.5.........

i WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT...MAY YOU HELP ME...

ps:EXCUSE ME FOR MY ENGLISH!!!

cIAO gio

[Access Denied]

I use Outlook 2003 and it catches 97% of my spam at worst. Most of the time I never see a spam, sometimes for weeks.

Edited May 8, 2007 by accessdenied042

[fizban2]

Gio,

the junk email filters you are talking about are discussed here (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP052429671033.aspx) really you

[Stoic Joker]

Huh?

You're running an Exchange server, and trying to stop spam at the client end?!? ...You are kidding right?

On our office network the Outlook clients only see less than 1% of the actual spam and get about 50% of that. the reall "work" is done by a server side spam filter (GFi's MailEssentials) which stops the spam before it ever gets to exchange.

SMTP service ->GFi ->Exchange

According to the GFi logs (Which are fantastic) its prevented over 4,000,000,000 (yes 4 billion) pieces of spam since 1/1/07 from even touching Exchange ... which is actually the point of the excercise because once it hits the mail stores it's already done its damage. Bloating the db, the transaction logs, and the backups with useless information.

Client side filters are fine if you get mail from your ISP, but if you run your own mail server ... Hay man if you got the "ball" ... It's (all you) your ball...