Take Control of What’s New in Entourage 2004

Chapter . Slowing Down Spam

Junk email, or spam, has reached epidemic proportions, and with no end in sight, any email program worth its salt must provide robust tools to identify and quarantine spam. The idea is to prevent junk mail from making it to your In box. Spammers get more clever (and maddening) every day, so winnowing the spam from the good email is an increasingly difficult proposition. Solutions that worked fine as little as a year ago may be of little use today. So it is with the Junk Mail Filter in the previous version of Entourage, Entourage X. When it was released, it did a decent job of identifying junk mail, but now it is of hardly any use.

That’s why the Junk Mail Filter in Entourage 2004 is interesting and useful. It uses an ...