Bananaman Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 My business partner has installed THIS & has not recived any Spam or virus infected e-mails I'm gonna sign up £3.75/month. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adhawkins Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Personally, I don't trust anyone else to decide what mail I do and don't want to receive. My spam filter occasionally marks a 'real' e-mail as spam. However, as all it does is move them to a different folder, I don't lose the message. With a service like this, I'd always be wondering 'How many real e-mails have they decided I didn't want?'. Much better to buy a spam filter (or download a free one, there are plenty around) and use that locally. IMO of course. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananaman Posted January 30, 2004 Author Share Posted January 30, 2004 Andy Any reccomendations for Spam filters? Andy P.S. They have a site which you can look at the filterd spam/virus infected emails & down load ones you want. My partner has only had 1 in 2 Months that he wanted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adhawkins Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 As long as they keep your spams for you so that you can get at them, then I guess that's Ok. Personally I use PopFile. It's free, and once you train it up it's pretty accurate. Not as slick as some commercial packages, sure, but if you're prepared to put in a little bit of effort (might take you half an hour or so to get it set up) then it works well. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 At home I've used Spamnet from Cloudmark for about two years, it's been very good. It might not be free anymore though. One of it's most useful facilities is the "whitelist", you can add senders that might be spamers to others, but that you want to receive mail from, im my case Amazon and the like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v7slr Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Cloudmark is good but since they started charging I stopped using it, preferring the built-in junk filter of Outlook. I already filter all my "known" mail, most of it from the Se7ens List, so what's left in my inbox is mostly spam, which I add to the junk mail list. Works ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrenRav Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 Andy (the banana one) If you're serious about resolving the problem of spam and want a combined message, mail and scheduling package have a look at David XL Tobit Website If any of these products are of interest to you drop me a line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregh Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 this is free and I've heard good things about it Spambayes What people are saying about us Thanks to this remarkable open source duo, I am ready to declare victory on spam. Jon Udell, May 2003, in his weblog, Results, for me, were immediate and spectacular. SpamBayes nailed a number of spams that SpamAssassin let through Jon Udell again, in a two page InfoWorld article And efficient it is. After a just bit of training, the SpamBayes Outlook Addin detects junk mail reliably. Review by Heinz Tschabitscher at email.about.com Probably the best plug-in for Outlook out there. Review by arstechnica.com If you're an Outlook user, free SpamBayes does a more effective job than a number of filtering programs you have to pay for Review at soundingline.com It's been extraordinarily effective...it catches 99% of my spam Larry Fresinski of Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management in two recent Computerworld issues SpamBayes is currently the best solution to the spam problem. In fact, after I started using it I hardly notice there is a spam problem at all Kristian Eide in a review comparing POPFile and Spambayes Now you know a simple way to regain absolute control of your Inbox Corey Nachreiner in "Keep Spam at Bay with SpamBayes", a WatchGuard LiveSecurity column I have to say I'm very happy with its performance...The documentation on the SpamBayes site is very good...It is very much worth the time to train and use SpamBayes. Chris DiBona in a TechTV article. Words can't fully describe the elation I feel when I boot up my computer in the morning, launch Outlook and watch 75 or so e-mails download, only to see two-thirds of them immediately and automatically leave my inbox and enter the spam folder! Brian Dipert in an article in EDN Magazine. Outlook 2003 accurately blocked roughly 85 percent of an average day's spam, while 2002 topped out at about 65 percent, an increase of 20 percent more junk e-mail filtered. That said, free open-source filters like SpamBayes can block about 98 percent of spam. Michelle Delio praising the improvements in Outlook's built-in spam filtering in a Wired News article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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