Whats a good e-mail spam filter for Outlook on Windows 2000?
I use SpamBayes for my Outlook/work mail, and run all my personal Thunderbird/POP mail through PopFile. (I find that the built-in spam filter for T-Bird sucks, but YMMV.) I set my wife up with SpamSieve on our OS X machine, so I’ve wrestled with each of the options suggested so far. The big advantage for SpamBayes is that it’s tightly integrated into the Outlook client–even better than SpamSieve is into Entourage–so you “train” it just by moving or deleting mail in Outlook. PopFile, on the other hand, will learn any number of categorizations that you care to teach it (not just “good/bad” like SpamBayes or SpamSieve). You can teach it to sort out your personal mail, your newsletter subscriptions, etc. without having to build a ton of different message filters, which I really like. The big downside for PopFile, though, is that it’s really not integrated into the client–it runs as a proxy POP server, and classifies your mail before it gets passed along to your app. I understand how thi
Though I’ll second the recommendations to use Thunderbird over Outlook (as Thunderbird has built-in spam filtering), if you must use Outlook, Outclass is a free implementation of POPFile with Outlook integration.
