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Open source spam management for Outlook: SpamBayes


Serdar Yegulalp
03.08.2007
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This tip, courtesy of SearchExchange.com, gives value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators insight into the productive use of SpamBayes, an open source spam management tool for Microsoft Outlook.

For organizations that don't have an Exchange server, only individual Microsoft Outlook desktop installations, SpamBayes is a handy way to manage spam without dropping a lot of money.

SpamBayes is an open source antispam product written in Python. It can run cross-platform, but its Windows implementation and Microsoft Outlook plug-in version have been very successful. The product integrates with Microsoft Outlook, and can either replace Microsoft Outlook's native spam filtering or work in conjunction with it.

The SpamBayes team recently released a public alpha 3 release of version


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1.1, which is stable enough to be used on a desktop, since most of the changes are "under the hood" (in the classification system). The updates make this latest version of SpamBayes even more accurate and discriminating.

If you upgrade from an older release of SpamBayes, it's probably a good idea to rebuild the spam database by retraining the system using recent good and bad email.

Some of the new features in SpamBayes 1.1 include:

To integrate SpamBayes with Microsoft Outlook, I've found that it's best to make the following changes:

About the author
Serdar Yegulalp is editor of Windows Insight, a newsletter devoted to hints, tips, tricks, news and goodies for all flavors of Windows users.

This tip originally appeared on SearchExchange.com.


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