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Disruptor OL - Outlook Spam Filter Add-On
Disruptor OL - Outlook Spam Filter Add-On
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Disruptor OL 1.0.93 - Outlook Spam Filter

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The Bottom Line

Disruptor OL is a thorough and highly effective approach to eliminating spam from your Outlook Inbox. Disruptor OL combines multiple tactics, which, unfortunately, makes it a bit complex.
Pros
  • Disruptor OL filters spam effectively and thoroughly
  • Combines Bayesian filtering, language and content rules, DNS blackhole lists, and scoring
  • Disruptor OL integrates well with Outlook and is easy to use once set up
Cons
  • Disruptor OL can be a bit complex and intimidating with its multitude of options and features
  • Disruptor OL requires Outlook

Description

  • Disruptor OL is a spam filtering plug-in for Outlook.
  • Disruptor OL can use any combination of a multitude of options and tactics to identify spam.
  • Includes content and language filters, blackhole lists, black-/whitelists and Bayesian filtering.
  • All Disruptor OL filters can be used flexibly to build an overall, decisive spam score.
  • Content filters in Disruptor OL can be simple word filters or complex regexp constructs.
  • The Disruptor OL language filter can automatically eliminate all mail you can't read anyway .
  • Additionally, Disruptor OL can remove remote images, links or convert HTML emails to plain text.
  • Disruptor OL can give a detailed filter and statistical analysis for every message.
  • Disruptor OL supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista and Outlook 2000/2/3/7.

Guide Review - Disruptor OL 1.0.93 - Outlook Spam Filter

A disruptor, the Disruptor OL home page is not shy to note, is no toy gun: "the damage is severe." And indeed Disruptor OL isn't nice with spam.

Using a great number of powerful and highly flexible filtering methods (which can even be combined to decide on an aggregate score) it detects a good deal of spam and moves it to a special Outlook folder.

Of course, recovering mail from there is as easy as teaching Disruptor OL new filters. The multitude of options brings with it a certain degree of complexity, however, and getting Disruptor OL to work your way can take a bit.

While regexp filters, DNSBL checks and language filtering are all nice, I found myself relying on the Bayesian filtering alone quickly, which reaps great results easily.
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