What do you use to filter SPAM?
 

I have heard of Spamfighter and mailwasher... whats the best to use?

discuss

Britta

Delete button

drop outlook and start using a real soft like thunderbird

http://www.spamassassin.org ... free & very effective :)

Spamnix incorporated into Eudora Pro. Its seemless and works well.

the delete key

Spam Arrest

works great

Spam Assassin on servers and Cloudmark in Outlook. Works really well! :thumbsup

Same

My host uses Spam Assassin

Spam Arrest

I use the mozilla mail client.. it has a spam filter built in and its free. :)

not real efficient when you're getting thousands of pieces of spam every day. Sure, it deletes them, but how much time does that eat up every day, and they'll just be back tomorrow.

That client doesn't have much functionality in my opinion. There's no way to export, backup, or archive your mail. And that's the killer for me. That simply won't do. I have every piece of email for the last 5 years archived here, and frequently, I need to open those up and look something up.

What happens if your computer suddenly goes up in smoke one day? You lose everything on your c:\ drive and you have no backup of your email?

sorry, won't be using Mozilla until they at least build in some more functionality.

Whats fucked up about all these spam filters in my opinion is that it still downloads the spam and then puts it in a different folder. 1 youre still waiting for all that shit to download 2 youre gonna be checking the deleted spam folder anyway.

I want something that can be integrated in outlook and deletes th spam from the server before downloading it. So far i havent found anything.

Currently testing DSPAM

You can see my current results.

Mailwasher does that, but it's not integrated into the program. It runs separately.

Exactly. Crap.

sorry man.... I didn't invent the thing.

but I hear ya.... I'd like to find the same thing you described. If you ever come across something like that, lemme know.

what he said, or you can try also Netscape for FREE .

Outlook filter is the worst feature for Spam, unless you want to spend $$$.

5 min max

I second the recommend for Cloudmark. It's filtering about 5k spams a day out of my email stream and passing less than a hundred. Very rare for it to eat a real email.

I installed and tried Thunderbird out. It's a joke. Their spam filter may be decent, but the rest of the program falls way short.

Does it delete the spam on the server already?

I downloaded the free trial and it crashes on install.

Nifty.

Hmm, seems to works now.

Exactly what I did!! It is awesome!

Fuck, it also makes you download the spam. I really dont see the point in this.

You'll need a server side solution to delete the spam on the server. A client side program can't classify it as spam unless it downloads it.

I use bayesian spam filter Spam Bully at work, and it's very, very good. if it supports the Outlook and Outlook Express mail clients, I highly recommend it.

spampal is what I use and its free. It does however download the spam, it has to. Anything run on the client side has to fetch it from the pop server before processing it. If you dont want it downloaded then you have no choice but to use a server side solution like spam assasian.

I use K9.

give it the knockout punch with http://www.inboxer.com

k9 is amazing. But with a huge wordlist it consumes 30-50 megs. I hate it when progs waste my memory even if enough is there.

Nice solutions are Firebird/ Thunderbird or TheBat (I prefer that one)

i just set filters in outlook. but spam is like fucking roaches, the more you squish, the more come.

i use thunderbird for email


i setup rules


i have never responded to anyones..spamarrest crap..please fill out this form to send me an email..lol


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Outlook filters work for me. I have a list of some words, and if any of them is found in the email body, the email is deleted. Simple as that, and I don't bother with outside applications.

another newbie bumbing old thread.. WTF?