I also love the idea that pictures are not automatically downloaded when a questionable mail is downloaded. I’ve set the pref to download all pictures in mail in my address book, and this seems to work just fine.Just be aware that there are lots of spammers, and also virus-mongers (well, we might get one on the Mac some day) and especially worm-mongers - that pretend to come from someone in your Address Book. In fact they generally get your email address form someone else's Address Book in their email program. So that's why this option is off by default - it's at your own risk if you turn it on. Many people will be happy to take the risk, so that's why the option exists.
One question – when mail is manually marked as junk, does the filter “learn” from this action? I’m still waiting for a false negative to try.
No. Spammers can pretty quickly work around a lot of the "learning" of Bayesian filters. That's why you're seeing lost of plain text spam that includes long paragraphs of long Latinate words - they often get around filters which have learned to allow messages with some of these words. Instead, MS plan to update the filter from time to time. They're using the same Junk filter engines as Outlook, MSN and other MS programs - which gives them a HUGE sample to practice on and learn from - much more than you could ever do with your own little Bayesian checker.
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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