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The embedded list of conditions for testing on junk e-mails provided by
Microsoft are way too lax (they won't catch much) and end up with lots
of false positives (good e-mails marked as junk). Since playing with
the Junk option in Outlook, I've gotten more false positives in the last
2 days than I've had in the last 4 months.
The clause for the Junk Sender rule is:
suspected to be junk e-mail or from Junk Senders
I'd like to toss the first part of "suspected to be junk e-mail" but
keep the sender blacklist of "Junk Senders". Outlook doesn't provide a
whitelist (other than using a rule with "sender is in <contact-type>
Address Book") and the only blacklist it has is the "Junk Senders.txt"
file read by this clause. I'd like to separate the blacklist from
Microsoft's piss poor junk conditions (which I cannot modify because
they are embedded, the filters.txt file just tells me what conditions
are included, and it could be out of sync with what conditions are
actually used).
I already use SpamPal and it does provide whitelists and blacklists but
additions are made manually and separately of Outlook. I don't use
e-mail blacklists to block spam because spammers always use a newly
auto-generated bogus e-mail address on every crop of crap they spew. I
use it to get rid of announcements from specific divisions of a service
or my provider, like news from my ISP or from my webmail provider (the
e-mail address is different than used for their tech support), or maybe
for someone that I want to killfile (I haven't gotten on someone's sh*t
list yet but it could happen). If I opt for a different anti-spam
solution, I'd lose my blacklist unless I could copy into what else I
used but I couldn't move it back into Outlook's Junk Senders list
because the only way to use it is also with the "suspected to be junk
e-mail" conditions that I do NOT want used (because of way too many
false positives).
Microsoft are way too lax (they won't catch much) and end up with lots
of false positives (good e-mails marked as junk). Since playing with
the Junk option in Outlook, I've gotten more false positives in the last
2 days than I've had in the last 4 months.
The clause for the Junk Sender rule is:
suspected to be junk e-mail or from Junk Senders
I'd like to toss the first part of "suspected to be junk e-mail" but
keep the sender blacklist of "Junk Senders". Outlook doesn't provide a
whitelist (other than using a rule with "sender is in <contact-type>
Address Book") and the only blacklist it has is the "Junk Senders.txt"
file read by this clause. I'd like to separate the blacklist from
Microsoft's piss poor junk conditions (which I cannot modify because
they are embedded, the filters.txt file just tells me what conditions
are included, and it could be out of sync with what conditions are
actually used).
I already use SpamPal and it does provide whitelists and blacklists but
additions are made manually and separately of Outlook. I don't use
e-mail blacklists to block spam because spammers always use a newly
auto-generated bogus e-mail address on every crop of crap they spew. I
use it to get rid of announcements from specific divisions of a service
or my provider, like news from my ISP or from my webmail provider (the
e-mail address is different than used for their tech support), or maybe
for someone that I want to killfile (I haven't gotten on someone's sh*t
list yet but it could happen). If I opt for a different anti-spam
solution, I'd lose my blacklist unless I could copy into what else I
used but I couldn't move it back into Outlook's Junk Senders list
because the only way to use it is also with the "suspected to be junk
e-mail" conditions that I do NOT want used (because of way too many
false positives).