Spam Prevention Question
 

Ok, I have tried jsut about all the spam filters and plugins for Outlook out there and I am not finding one worth a shit. I am currently using MailWasher Pro but this program defeats the purpose in a way, you check with it and block and bounce, then you gotta open your damn email program and downlaod email and in the mean time 20 more spams jsut came in so they don't fo to your mailwasher they go into your email program, what the hell purpose does this help?

Anyone had any real good luck with anything? I tried the outlook plugins but when you gotta still go through your Spam folder to make sure it didn't consider any friends or important emails as spam then why it have to start with?

I have tried using spamcop's plugin on my linux server and that doesn't help worth a shit either, hell sometimes it even blocks my own emails from sending out.

Help if you have found a good solution for fighting or blocking spam!!!

Bump...

I've been quite happy with SpamAssassin. It takes a bit of configuring, but once you get it tweaked its very accurate.

Tried that on our server with phatservers too and it blocked alot of attachments which don't help me, I live off attachments hehehe.

Check out spampal. As long as you are using the POP3 interface for Outlook, it will work fine. It is the BEST I have found and I've tried nearly all of em.... Its free and written by James Farmer, a well respected anti-spammer.


Block em http://spampal.org/

Track em http://samspade.org/

Report em http://spamcop.net./

Sue em http://spamcon.org/


and get them a lifetime membership to every spammers
favorite...... http://spews.org/

SPEWS was reported as dead by several Spammers on this board.... Here is the real story

"[Sep/03] Massive DDoS attacks on SPEWS.ORG
As if to prove to the world how effective SPEWS can be in stopping their spam, several groups of spammers initiated several massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on SPEWS.ORG. Actions of this sort are obviously criminal, but one must remember that most of the things spammers do are criminal already.

On occasion, this rendered the website unreachable, but the website is really only a tool used by people and ISPs whose email is rejected and who wish to find out the reason why. The actual SPEWS data files are downloaded from a variety of places to be used in public & private DNSBL systems and turned into email server deny lists.

The spammers gained little from their actions other than the possibility a date in court when names are attached to the actions. As with everything on the Internet, SPEWS.ORG's website runs on, and is connected to, systems owned by real companies. By attacking the SPEWS website what's really being attacked are these companies - several are not happy and it seems have stated they won't rest until they ARE happy. "

the irony of this thread, webmasters talking about using spam filters!

It may be hard to believe , especially on GFY, but not all adult webmasters resort to SPAMMING for traffic.....

I use the delete key and it works fine.

We put SpamAssassin on all our servers and you simply set filters to send anything tagged as **SPAM** to your trash bin.

You can even adjust the level of protection you wish to use on your email accounts... If your host does not offer this check out our specials

It doesn't block attachments if you configure it correctly.

That might be ok if you got 30 good emails and 10 spam emails, but when you recieve 800+ spam emails a day and 30+ good emails it gets old very quickly.

time for a new email acct if your getting 800 spam mails a day :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I have considered forwarding all my email to my hotmail account and then use their blocking & filters solution and then jsut reply to everythign using hotmail. It's either that or buy HiveMail and setup all my accounts on it and use it, that webmail program rocks btw:)

I get about 150 spams and about 10 legitimate emails daily. The turds go to the **SPAM** folder for quick review. Spampal uses a combination of blocklists and a Regex( keyword) filter. It also has some very powerful whitelisting features to allowed selected emails to always get through.

Trust me, it is worth a try. I find it 98-99% effective. Occasionally a spam gets through and legit email get filtered, put its very, very good.

:)

http://www.postini.com/ is what my ISP uses and I love it! Just change your MX servers and they real time filter messages and pass them on to you. Not sure what the cost is though. Might be more then an indivual would want to pay.
ZoiNK

Yahoo has some good filters also