Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Other Spam Filtering Solutions

The spam blocking features in Outlook 2007 can help considerably in blocking unwanted messages, but there are other options you should consider in addition to the Outlook 2007 filtering technologies.

Filtering in Exchange Server

If your company or organization uses Exchange Server, you can perform some spam filtering tasks right at the server without adding third-party software. Exchange 2003 Server and Exchange Server 2007 both support domain filtering for virtual Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers.

Exchange Server 2007 offers some additional features not included in Exchange 2003 Server, making it potentially more effective for blocking spam. One server in an organization is designated as the Edge Transport ...