Spam Filters and Outlook Rules: Friends or Enemies?

Outlook Rules If you actively Internet at homeuseful but when they work simultaneously you
and in office and receive dozens of e-mailcan get the feeling that they are specially
messages everyday then you almost surely havedesigned to make your life harder. For example,
to use some facilities for automatic sorting of theyou receive a filled questionnaire and Rules direct
incoming e-mail. For example, in Microsoft Outlookit to Inquirer but then the spam filter finds word
you can automatically sort incoming messages"Sex" in it and an important letter goes to the
using Outlook Rules. Although the article is notspam folder. Another situation: the spam filter
about the advantages of automatic sorting wedetects spam messages and directs them to the
have to mention that gives you a number ofspam folder but then Outlook Rules sort these
benefits, at least you save your time and mentalmessages and send them to your work folders.
health - you can always be sure that letters fromSurprise! What is even more surprising in this
your wife are in Honey folder while businessconflict is when it happens within one program.
letters never go to Fun . This article is aboutMicrosoft Outlook 2003 has a built in Junk filter
something that can actually take plenty of yourbut apparently this filter has absolutely no idea
time and health - the mess, which is in one wayabout Outlook Rules. We did some tests sending a
or another caused by spam. Spam Filters Sincehundred of spam letters to the mailbox with
you actively use e-mail you must receive muchOutlook 2003. Spam filter and Outlook Rules were
spam and since you are not happy about this*seizing each letter and as a result there were two
you must use some anti-spam software. Spamletters - one in Junk message folder and the
filters can be divided into two groups - serverother in a folder for Outlook Rules. Finally we
filters and client ones. Server spam filters scan allreceived about 200 letters. So, this means that a
the e-mail coming to the server and protect youbuilt in spam filter is not a guarantee of faultless
from receiving spam. So the majority of spamsimultaneous work because very often different
doesn't simply reach your mailbox but if theprogram blocks are designed by different teams
server spam filter deletes an important e-mailand may be in different parts of the world.
then you do not just lose it - you will never knowConclusion How to avoid the conflict between the
that it came. That is why more people preferfeatures and have sorted mail without spam? We
client spam filters. They scan the messagessee the following two ways: * You can set the
coming to your personal mailbox and direct spamserver spam filter to add the word "spam" to the
to the special folder that you can always check.subject field of a detected spam message instead
In this case junk messages reach your mailboxof deleting it. Next step is to add a new Outlook
but they are stored in spam folder do not reallyRule that directs messages with such a subject to
bother you. A Problem? What can bother you isthe spam folder. Choosing the priority of the rule
the conflict between the two nice featuresyou can decide if you want it executed before or
mentioned above - Outlook Rules and your spamafter other rules. * You can install a client spam
filter. Because of this conflict some of my friendsfilter where you can organize the interaction
even decided not to use spam filters and dealbetween spam filtering and Outlook Rules.
with the spam manually. The problem is - theFortunately there are some new spam filters with
spam filter doesn't "know" about Outlook Rulessuch a feature. For example, Spam Reader has
while Outlook Rules don't "know" about the spamfull support of Outlook Rules and you can try to
filter. Separately these two features are nice anduse it.