Helping Users Avoid Junk E-Mail Messages in Outlook 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 provides two new features that can help users avoid receiving and reading junk e-mail messages—the new Junk E-mail Filter and the disabling of automatic content download from external servers:

  • A new filtering manager helps users avoid reading junk e-mail messages. The filter is on by default and the protection level is set to Low, which is designed to catch the most obvious junk e-mail messages. The filter replaces the rules for processing junk e-mail messages in previous versions of Outlook.

  • Outlook 2003 helps reduce the risk of Web beacons activating in e-mail messages by automatically blocking download of pictures, sounds, and other content from external ...

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