Spam has finally hit me

[Jonathan]

Well I'm finally getting spam; problem is, its so bad that
it causes Thunderbird to use a good deal of CPU for me.

Avast and AVG both have (and work) email plugins,
but besides Mailwasher Pro, any suggestions on any
Windows spam filters? some sort of smtp proxy? etc.

The biggest problem is, it comes across many
accounts, not all of which are here @ dathorn.

[Jonathan]

Something that seems to be working excellent now is SpamPal (add .ORG)
It took some time to work out multiable mail servers, but found the answer HERE.

Also it has some (though a few are very brief / not 100% helpful)
tutorials on how to config it with your antivirus software HERE.

[sdjl]

I personally recommend POPfile: http://popfile.sourceforge.net

My installed copy is going strong on 6 mail boxes. It relies on your email program to read custom headers so at the end of the day you can port it to any piece of software.
Well worth looking at

David

[Jonathan]

SpamPal works simular, injecting a header and, if spam, also **SPAM**
in the subject line as well, so there's two ways of catching it.

So far its working pretty good, but I might see
about turning it off to try POPFile. Looks pretty good

[sdjl]

Ah yes, you can also setup subject modification with POPfile, however i dislike that feature

David

[ChrisTech]

Something that seems to be working excellent now is SpamPal (add .ORG)
It took some time to work out multiable mail servers, but found the answer HERE.

Also it has some (though a few are very brief / not 100% helpful)
tutorials on how to config it with your antivirus software HERE.

That's what my bosses like here @ work. I quit using it approx. 9 months ago due to it not catching very many of the spam emails. I havent tried it since, and I only use webmail now @ work. I guess I need to go back to using OE here, and put spampal back on.

[Pedja]

Tryout MailWasher. I find it most advanced approach to spam filtering.

[ChrisTech]

Tryout MailWasher. I find it most advanced approach to spam filtering.

I found MailWasher too helpless. Teaching it is an ongoing process. You still have to screen the emails before you recieve them. That's just as painful as actually deleting them from your inbox, unless the program has changed in the past 6 months or so.

[Frank Hagan]

I found MailWasher too helpless. Teaching it is an ongoing process. You still have to screen the emails before you recieve them. That's just as painful as actually deleting them from your inbox, unless the program has changed in the past 6 months or so.

I'm on dial-up at home, so I like the idea of deleting them from the server before downloading. So in that respect, I like Mailwasher.

The Pro version now has an on-line database it can check for "known spam" so it can flag it to be deleted. Spam messages that get through without being flagged by SpamCop, your own blacklist, etc., are submitted by users of MailWasher Pro, verified as spam by the admins, and then a checksum is generated for the database. The program compares that checksum to each incoming message to provide an extra "layer" of spam detection.

My problem with all spam methods is the possibility of a false positive, leading to deleting valid email. So I like to see the headers of the 200 or so emails taht get past my ISPs server-side spam checker. But on a dialup connection, I don't want to actually download the picture of what the spammers are offering to make larger before I delete the email!

[Jonathan]

I thought Mailwasher only came in "Pro"?
So far SpamPal works like a charm

I'm trying to configure the AVG email plugin
to work with it, so it goes something like
Internet -> SpamPal -> AVG -> Thunderbird.

Got to love it, both Spam and Virus/Malicious scanning

[felipe808]

keir.net & K9

Robin keir's K9 is pretty easy to set up and pretty good. you need a bunch of bad emails to train it fast. It's small, fast and robust. It give me about 99% blocks with >1% false-positives. It has a quick review screen where you can change the false-poss.