Microsoft Junk E-mail Reporting Tool for Outlook 2003/07

Steven Parker on 27 October 2006 - 14:44 · 25 comments & 11965 views

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The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool submits e-mail to Microsoft when you explicitly choose to do so. If you receive a junk e-mail and want to report it to us for analysis, first select the e-mail in Outlook and then click the junk e-mail button on your tool bar. You will see a pop-up window asking whether you want to report the selected e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates. When you click “Yes” to confirm that you’d like to report the selected e-mail as junk e-mail, the junk e-mail will be deleted from your Inbox and sent to FrontBridge, a Microsoft company, for analysis to help us improve the effectiveness of our junk e-mail filtering technologies.

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Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows XP
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

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(1 reply) #1 +GreyWolfSC on 27 Oct 2006 - 15:07

"This mail cannot be reported as it is marked 'Do Not Forward'."

#1.1 +Ryster092 on 27 Oct 2006 - 21:21

Yeah I get the below message when I try to use the button on ANY of my messages. Firstly, I'm pretty sure all of my messages are not marked as "Do Not Forward". Secondly, what is the point of that limitation? Surely spammers are going to get wise to this and just mark all of their emails in this way?

#2 LeskiL on 27 Oct 2006 - 15:50

i don't see a button to report... where is it?

(2 replies) #3 kyosuken on 27 Oct 2006 - 16:06

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first select the e-mail in Outlook and then click the junk e-mail button on your tool bar. You will see a pop-up window asking whether you want to report the selected e-mail to Microsoft and its affiliates. When you click “Yes” to confirm that you’d like to report the selected e-mail as junk e-mail, the junk e-mail will be deleted from your Inbox and sent to FrontBridge, a Microsoft company, for analysis to help us improve the effectiveness of our junk e-mail filtering technologies.

Pretty self explanatory ^^.. there is no report button

#3.1 +Ryster092 on 27 Oct 2006 - 21:15

No report button? How did you work that one out?

"click the junk e-mail button"

Last edited by Ryster092 on 27 Oct 2006 - 21:25

#3.2 petrop on 28 Oct 2006 - 11:49

Why don't I have that button? Maybe he doesn't link portuguese UI.

#4 win2000b on 27 Oct 2006 - 16:41

Button is here

(1 reply) #5 +AaronZ on 27 Oct 2006 - 17:17

Very nice MS. Very nice. I love it when they do stuff like this.

#5.1 jimboh1 on 27 Oct 2006 - 17:59

Yes, long overdue, IMO, but a welcome addition.

J.

(1 reply) #6 LeskiL on 27 Oct 2006 - 18:53

Great... dosn't work with danish version... probertly only english, cause i don't have that new button

#6.1 kiddingguy on 27 Oct 2006 - 23:06

same here for the Dutch version

#7 jimboh1 on 27 Oct 2006 - 19:01

Hmmm... may have to reassess my opinion (5.1) above; as #1 indicated, what good is it if you can't forward all the junk e-mail marked "Do Not Forward"?

J.

(2 replies) #8 WoodlandSpirit on 27 Oct 2006 - 19:06

My question is, is it acted upon in the same manor as reporting it to spamcop? That's what I would really like rather than just trying to improve the filter.

Last edited by WoodlandSpirit on 27 Oct 2006 - 19:37

#8.1 +guylaroche on 27 Oct 2006 - 20:49

And how does Spamcop work?

#8.2 WoodlandSpirit on 27 Oct 2006 - 22:10

Quote - guylaroche said @ #8.1

And how does Spamcop work?

By actually taking action against spammers and helping to prevent it.

(4 replies) #9 mattm591 on 27 Oct 2006 - 20:01

So why not for Outlook 2002?

#9.1 +Ryster092 on 27 Oct 2006 - 21:16

Because it's 4 years old, you really should consider upgrading to 2003 or wait and upgrade to 2007.

#9.2 +GreyWolfSC on 28 Oct 2006 - 05:57

Quote - mattm591 said @ #9

So why not for Outlook 2002?

Because Outlook 2002 is for the Mac, and this addin is for Windows.

Windows versions were 1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2007

EDIT: Err, my bad. 2002 was Office XP. It may be EOL'ed.

#9.3 MazX_Napalm on 28 Oct 2006 - 18:24

Quote - GreyWolfSC said @ #9.2

EDIT: Err, my bad. 2002 was Office XP. It may be EOL'ed.

Mac version is 2004

#9.4 +GreyWolfSC on 30 Oct 2006 - 15:34

Quote - MazX_Napalm said @ #9.3

Quote - GreyWolfSC said @ #9.2

EDIT: Err, my bad. 2002 was Office XP. It may be EOL'ed.

Mac version is 2004

Well, the "yeared" versions are 98, 2001, and 2004. Then there's "X" which was released in 2001...

Wikipedia

(2 replies) #10 +GreyWolfSC on 27 Oct 2006 - 23:05

So far every spam I've gotten since I installed it has been "Do Not Forward." Is there a way to disable that?

#10.1 +Ryster092 on 28 Oct 2006 - 22:45

Seems there is a flaw in this product. I'm 99% sure that all of my messages are not marked as "Do Not Forward", since I can forward them manually without any problem. So there must be one giant bug in Microsoft's software... do they actually have an internal testing department any more??? Seems to me something this major would be easy to spot if they did.

#10.2 MrCobra on 30 Oct 2006 - 15:24

Brandon Live seems to think they do.

#11 rocketman on 29 Oct 2006 - 18:53

Seems only English Outlook is supported as the button does not appear on my German Outlook 2003

#12 Tirnaog on 30 Oct 2006 - 14:09

It does not work.
All emails come back with that , "Marked as Do Not Forward", msg.
Waste of time installing this until that is fixed.

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