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Outlook Spam Filter is an easy-to-use MS Outlook add-on that protects your Inbox against spam. The program is based on Bayesian filtering technology. It automatically learns using your personal correspondence to increase the filtration accuracy. Quarantined e-mails are stored in a separate SPAM folder. Users can manage their friends and enemies lists or build their own filters. The program has an option to test outgoing mail for potential risk of being filtered as spam. Recognition of newsgroup messages using Safe Recipients list and automatic inclusion of outgoing mail recipients into Friends List are available. POP3, IMAP, HTTP and MS Exchange support.

Outlook Spam Filter Features:

• Microsoft Exchange Support
  Outlook Spam Filter works with all mail accounts supported by Outlook: POP3, IMAP, HTTP and Exchange.

• Filtering Based on Bayesian Algorithm
  Outlook Spam Filter uses built-in algorithm of message filtration, which is based on Bayesian approach of defining whether a message is spam or not. This filtering technology is one of the most exact and reliable approaches of differentiating spam and not spam messages nowadays. The algorithm applies to the results of statistical analysis of more than 30 000 spam letters that enables to determine spam with the accuracy no less than 97%.

• Friends and Enemies Lists Management
  You can use "friends" and "enemies" list in order to choose who you do or do not want to receive mail from. Friends/Enemies Lists may include names, email addresses, entire domains and wildcards. When you run Outlook Spam Filter for the first time, all contacts from your Address Book are automatically added to your Friends List. Further you can manually edit your Friends/Enemies Lists any time you wish, and also add contacts from the selected emails to these lists.

• Testing outgoing mail for risk of being filtered as spam
  You can test outgoing mail for potential risk of being filtered as spam by other spam filters. Outlook Spam Filter will review your message and return a grade along with the reasoning behind it.

• Auto-learning Engine
  Auto-learning increases the filtration accuracy by analysis of user personal correspondence. The more a user works with the program, the better is the accuracy of spam definition.

• Customizable Spam Recognition Keywords and Non-Spam Recognition Keywords

• Additionally you can create your own list of allowed and banned words and phrases. If message body contains a word/phrase from the allowed list, such message will be considered as good. If message contains a word/phrase from the banned list then it will be considered as spam.

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