Blog Options
Archive
<< April 2024 >>-
Wednesday 24
- Expanding the StellarDS.io tooling -
Monday 22
- Easy Guide to Building a Pexels Gallery App with TMS WEB Core -
Wednesday 17
- New free component for sophisticated file uploads with TMS WEB Core -
Tuesday 16
- Closing the gap with TMS FNC UI Pack new additions -
Thursday 11
- Unveiling the Latest Enhancements in TMS VCL UI Pack -
Friday 5
- TMS components and Delphi and C++Builder 12.1 -
Wednesday 3
- Customizing the login page of your application using TMS Sphinx
- A Python library for using StellarDS.io effortlessly
- Introducing: How it Works with Holger - Building a Pexels gallery app with TMS WEB Core video series
- TMS FNC Cloud Pack with StellarDS.io backend: unparalleled productivity in VCL & FMX
Authors
- Bernard Roussely (1)
- Wagner Landgraf (82)
- Roman Yankovsky (2)
- Bart Holvoet (27)
- Aaron Decramer (18)
- Pieter Scheldeman (99)
- Nancy Lescouhier (32)
- Adrian Gallero (33)
- Bruno Fierens (404)
- Marcos Douglas B. Santos (5)
- Wagner R. Landgraf (1)
- Bradley Velghe (16)
- Bernard (2)
- Andrew Simard (86)
- Holger Flick (15)
- Gjalt Vanhouwaert (30)
- Tunde Keller (22)
- Masiha Zemarai (119)
Blog
All Blog Posts | Next Post | Previous PostHow Microsoft develops Outlook's spam filter
Bookmarks:Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Each day, I discover emails in the Outlook junk mail folder that do not belong in the junk mail. Sometimes I really wonder on what criteria Microsoft decides an email is spam or junk. Today, I discovered that suddenly an email from Delphi.About.com (an excellent website by the way) got classified as junk. I have been receiving emails from Delphi.About.com for years without problems. So, my typical reaction is to mark the email as safe sender and move it to my Inbox.Now, I'm starting to think that Microsoft utilizes a very clever algorithm for filtering emails. Everyday it randomly flags some emails as junk. It counts on the user for inspecting the junk folder and whitelisting the emails that are not spam. This way, all Microsoft has to do is accept all emails in the whitelist the user created and further randomly move some emails to the junk folder. Eventually, when Microsoft classifies enough random emails as spam and the user persists building the whitelist, there is hope that one day the Microsoft Outlook email filter will work as expected. Now, don't tell me Microsoft isn't innovative!
Bruno Fierens
Bookmarks:
This blog post has received 4 comments.
2. Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 11:14:38 PM
The Thunderbird junk filter, on the other hand, is excellent. It gets rid of perhaps 90% of my spam, with very few false positives.
Rob McDonell
3. Friday, August 6, 2010 at 3:56:14 AM
I''ve often thought this.. what *really* annoys me is that it doesn''t expose anything about why it moved a mail to junk!
Phillips Richard
4. Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 7:24:12 AM
Glad I switched to The-Bat! and Antispamsnipper a couple of years ago!
http://guti.bitacoras.com
All Blog Posts | Next Post | Previous Post
Jim McKeeth