Outlook 2007 Spam Filtering is too good
Recently I have upgraded to the beta of Office 2007. It's a great suite of products.
But something is really bugging me about the new Outlook. It's spam detection is way too good.
How can something be too good?
Well... I am used to receiving a bunch of spam each day. Some of it goes into spam, and some of it ends up in my inbox and I have to delete it manually. But in both cases it used to appear in my inbox for a few seconds and then get re-filed into the spam folder.
Now, with the new Outlook, I get almost NO email in my inbox that is spam, and it is routed to the Junk folder without appearing in my main mailbox for a few seconds.
This is stressing me out because I feel like, even though I have '20 new emails' I get nothing new in my mailbox! I don't even get a sense of whether or not the mail being junked is important or not.
I am so used to expecting spam, that it makes me uncomfortable that I can't see it. It's as if the spam was part of the experience and it somehow assured me that my pop accounts were working.
I find myself constantly checking the spam folder just to reassure myself that email is actually coming in.
Am I crazy?
Thank heavens for RSS.
But something is really bugging me about the new Outlook. It's spam detection is way too good.
How can something be too good?
Well... I am used to receiving a bunch of spam each day. Some of it goes into spam, and some of it ends up in my inbox and I have to delete it manually. But in both cases it used to appear in my inbox for a few seconds and then get re-filed into the spam folder.
Now, with the new Outlook, I get almost NO email in my inbox that is spam, and it is routed to the Junk folder without appearing in my main mailbox for a few seconds.
This is stressing me out because I feel like, even though I have '20 new emails' I get nothing new in my mailbox! I don't even get a sense of whether or not the mail being junked is important or not.
I am so used to expecting spam, that it makes me uncomfortable that I can't see it. It's as if the spam was part of the experience and it somehow assured me that my pop accounts were working.
I find myself constantly checking the spam folder just to reassure myself that email is actually coming in.
Am I crazy?
Thank heavens for RSS.
3 Comments:
you may have a point, but it's always like this when there is some change. U're missing your old lifestyle lol
It is interesting though how a fault of the system (in this case spam) can become part of your expected user experience - and that you can actually become conditioned to expect it and miss it.
I haven't had the same experience. I have been inundated with tons of spam and there's no way to "train" the system. I've used spambayes in the past but it crashes 2007 so I can't use it. Outlook 2007 is killing me :(
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