KnockOut Spam transparently integrates into Outlook and works with any email account you check in Outlook; POP, IMAP, Exchange and webmail accounts like Hotmail.
After installing KnockOut Spam a "Quick Setup" will appear the next time you open Outlook. You can configure it by using the Setup Wizard or Advanced Training.
Setup Wizard
KnockOut Spam scans for email messages you have replied to and makes sure they will always make it to your Inbox. All addresses in your Outlook Contacts list will also be allowed into your Inbox. It also learns from good messages in your mail folders.
KnockOut Spam comes trained with a library of several thousand spam messages, so it already knows what spam looks like.
KnockOut Spam creates 2 new sub-folders in your Inbox named "Unsure" and "Spam". Messages it is unsure of will go to the "Unsure" folder. Messages considered spam will go to the "Spam" folder.
If a message is miscategorized, simply "drag and drop" it into the folder it was meant to go to and KnockOut Spam will quickly correct itself on future messages.
Power users can "right click" on a message to categorize it as "Spam" or "Good". You can also check a message's Bayesian rank and see why it was considered spam or not spam from the "right click" menu by selecting "Message Rank".
Advanced Training
This is the most accurate way to train KnockOut Spam.
Choose the folders you want to train KnockOut Spam on.
You need to select at least one folder containing ALL good messages. A folder with a few hundred messages should be fine. It is not necessary to train with several thousand good messages, accuracy can actually be reduced with very large training libraries.
Optionally, you can choose a folder with a few thousand spam messages. If you do not have many or any spam messages, make sure "Empty the Bayesian dictionary before training starts" is unchecked. We include several thousand spam messages in the default Bayesian dictionary so you do not need to have spam messages to train with.
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