Top 10 Anti-Spam Plugins for Outlook

Cloudmark SafetyBar is a great and easy to use junk and phishing mail solution with an excellent spam detection rate and an even better record of avoiding false positives.

Ella for Spam Control is a wonderful and highly useful plug-in for Outlook and Outlook Express that not only effectively eliminates spam but prioritizes good mail, too.

The SpamBayes Outlook Addin employs sophisticated analysis using Bayesian statistics to rid your Outlook Inbox of junk mail precisely and in an easy to use manner.

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.

Outclass integrates POPFile with Outlook for easy to use and extremely accurate spam filtering and automatic mail classification. It even works with all email account types, something you can't easily do with POPFile alone.

eTrust Anti-Spam allows only mail from approved senders to your Inbox, checks sender credentials to warn about phishing attempts and lets you search your emails quickly, too. eTrust Anti-Spam suffers from the problems of challenge/response filters mildly, and you may still have to go through the spam you get every now and then.

Junk-Out is a great anti-spam plug-in for Outlook. It combines the simplicity of Bayesian filters that just get it right with lots of flexibility.

MailFrontier Desktop combines a number of anti-spam tactics to form a strong spam filtering package, but the individual modules are not perfect yet.

Using Bayesian statistics, SpamAid achieves a great spam detection rate and is really easy to use.

Using scoring filters and a self-learning, proprietary registry of spam, SpamCatcher Outlook is a highly effective (albeit not always precise) anti-spam tool for Microsoft Outlook.