Microsoft Outlook 2003 Spam Filter: Under the hood

MAPILab has several Outlook and Exchange utilities available for sale. They have produced a document breaking down the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk email filter.

"MAPILab Ltd. pleased to announce the article “Microsoft Outlook 2003 Spam Filter: Under the hood”. This article describes in details how the built-in Microsoft Outlook 2003 junk mail filter based on “state-of-the-art technology developed by Microsoft Research” works."

While the article is illuminating, it does not follow through with scientific process in testing, deciding instead to default to a few assumptions. For example, most businesses with weekday operations experience a significantly higher spam to valid email ratio on a Saturday than a Wednesday. But, they seem to have exposed the process and are fairly thorough and they do make me question what the fuss was about.

But, you judge the article for yourselves.

William Lefkovics

Thank you to Sue Mosher.