A few years ago I started using various anti-spam “solutions”. Outlook junk filter was the big one at the time. As happened to many, I got a few false positives. I originally thought to myself  “OK, I can just check that junk folder a couple of times a day”. That few minutes twice per day quickly turned into a once a week ritual of hell that took more then an hour to wade through all of the junk in that folder. All this just to see if I got any false positives.

I subsequently turned that off and have had all my emails delivered into my inbox since then. That stopped all the false positives and I have not heard of any missed emails since. The problem being that I was spending quite a bit of time deleting junk from my Inbox.

Then I started using Postini anti-spam filtering for my emails. The big difference of how it works, and why I love it, is that once per day Postini sends me a digest with a list of all emails that it blocked. That list contains the time, date, sender and subject of every blocked email.  I can then quickly go through that list and click on any email in that list to either view it in my browser or have it delivered.

What a difference!