OT - anti spam software

I know there are a number of IT geeks on here (that's meant to be a
compliment!)

I am fed up with e-mail offering Viagra, on-line dating, penis enlargement
and a host of other rubbish that I really don't need or want. Can anybody
recommend some kind of spam filter I can download or buy?

Thanks

Bob

"Bob Cooper" <bob@bobcooper.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I know there are a number of IT geeks on here (that's meant to be a
> compliment!)
>
> I am fed up with e-mail offering Viagra, on-line dating, penis enlargement
> and a host of other rubbish that I really don't need or want. Can anybody
> recommend some kind of spam filter I can download or buy?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
>

Try mailwasher

I use Mailwasher Pro.

"Bob Cooper" <bob@bobcooper.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bn9804$bd7$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I know there are a number of IT geeks on here (that's meant to be a
> compliment!)
>
> I am fed up with e-mail offering Viagra, on-line dating, penis enlargement
> and a host of other rubbish that I really don't need or want. Can anybody
> recommend some kind of spam filter I can download or buy?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
>

"Bob Cooper" <bob@bobcooper.fsnet.co.uk> wrote ...

> I am fed up with e-mail offering Viagra...

It's ideal for divers, saves you getting bent

There are two types of anti-SPAM filter, hosted and personal. Hosted
pre-filters your inbox before you even have to download it, personal
requires you to download at least a few lines.

For hosted try www.emailfiltering.co.uk, it's £3.75 per month per POP3 box.
The advantage is that somebody else does it all for you.

For a personal solution try www.mailwasher.org, that's just under $30 and
there's a 30 day trial period, that's what I use personally. It needs
setting up, the easiest way to get rid of around 80% of SPAM is to use the
SPAM databases (blacklists) like ORDB and SpamCop, you can do that with
MailWasher.

For a corporate solution try www.messagelabs.com, they are the big boys and
who we now use for the BSAC (thanks MattD), it's saved me getting lynched by
irate volunteers with mailboxes overflowing.

If you think that it's got worse recently - it has, I've never seen anything
like it. The BSAC mail stats are showing a 100% increase in email volumes in
the last six weeks alone, over 95% of all emails we receive are SPAM.

HTH

Keith L (Geek)

Bob,
Try Popfile from http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ free software
(requires that Perl be installed), pretty good (my accuracy rate for
7000 e-mails is 98.79%), cross-platform. Personally prefer Popfile to
MailWasher.
Try several spam filters and go with the one that works best for you.
John

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 19:51:50 +0100, "Bob Cooper"
<bob@bobcooper.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>I know there are a number of IT geeks on here (that's meant to be a
>compliment!)
>
>I am fed up with e-mail offering Viagra, on-line dating, penis enlargement
>and a host of other rubbish that I really don't need or want. Can anybody
>recommend some kind of spam filter I can download or buy?
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob
>

"Bob Cooper" <bob@bobcooper.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bn9804$bd7$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I know there are a number of IT geeks on here (that's meant to be a
> compliment!)
>
> I am fed up with e-mail offering Viagra, on-line dating, penis enlargement
> and a host of other rubbish that I really don't need or want. Can anybody
> recommend some kind of spam filter I can download or buy?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>

I've started using SpamPal at home, which can use both filtering and DNS
blacklists. For the longer term, put pressure on your ISP to offer it as a
service.

Bob Cooper <bob@bobcooper.fsnet.co.uk> writes:

>I am fed up with e-mail offering Viagra, on-line dating, penis enlargement
>and a host of other rubbish that I really don't need or want. Can anybody
>recommend some kind of spam filter I can download or buy?

If you are prepared to switch mail clients, the filter that is part
of Mozilla seems to work pretty well.

I have spamassassin on various unix systems and that seems pretty
good too, once you train the filters to recognise your own
personal version of spam.

I've also heard good reports of spambayes, mailwasher and spampal
(all of which exist in free versions).

Pete


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> I am fed up with e-mail offering Viagra, on-line dating, penis enlargement
> and a host of other rubbish that I really don't need or want. Can anybody
> recommend some kind of spam filter I can download or buy?

http://www.spamweed.com

I got this free from this months PCPlus cover disk (free once you have paid
£6 for the mag). Registration (usually $30) is free for PCP customers
before the 28th October.

Better still, after 5 days of usage it now correctly filters all my mail,
with no errors.

The free version is V1.2.1, whereas for $30 you get V1.3.9 - I've no idea
what the difference is (other than the price

Cheers
Matt.

"John R. Macdonald" <scubajohn@claranet.fr> wrote in message
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> Bob,
> Try Popfile from http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ free software
> (requires that Perl be installed), pretty good (my accuracy rate for
> 7000 e-mails is 98.79%), cross-platform. Personally prefer Popfile to
> MailWasher.
> Try several spam filters and go with the one that works best for you.
> John

I used to use mailwasher, but now use popfile - get about the same accurancy
rate 98%+ far higher that what I was acheiving on mailwasher

> >
>
> I've started using SpamPal at home, which can use both filtering and DNS
> blacklists. For the longer term, put pressure on your ISP to offer it as
a
> service.
>


I use SpamPal

http://www.spampal.org/


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