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OE and Spam filtering software.
Hi group,
I've recently started getting a lot of Spam. Can anyone recommend a good add-on program which can filter out spam. The message rules in Outlook Express is too time consuming to keep adding new spam addresses to all the time. Ideally I'd like a spam filter program which would just have been select the spam messages, right click and the program would automaticly scan the selected emails for there From email address and auto-add it to a block message area etc. Anyone know of a program which might do this? Gavin -- Remove AT from my address reply directly. |
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OE and Spam filtering software.
Message Rules Tips
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/rules.htm Why doesn't my rule work? http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules Filter /in/ your messages http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm -- HTH - Please Reply to This Thread ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP AumHa Forums http://forum.aumha.org What You Should Know About Spyware http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/...y/spyware.mspx IceC wrote: Hi group, I've recently started getting a lot of Spam. Can anyone recommend a good add-on program which can filter out spam. The message rules in Outlook Express is too time consuming to keep adding new spam addresses to all the time. Ideally I'd like a spam filter program which would just have been select the spam messages, right click and the program would automaticly scan the selected emails for there From email address and auto-add it to a block message area etc. Anyone know of a program which might do this? Gavin |
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OE and Spam filtering software.
Message rules are a waste of time because these vermin know how to keep one
step ahead. Instead, try one of the "learning" tools which will (surprisingly quickly) learn what you consider to be spam. The best I've used are SpamBayes and Spamihlator - the latter works particularly well for OE. You'll need to "train" it occasionally, but that's not onerous. Alternatively find an ISP which offers the "Brightmail" filtering service, which catches 95% of the torrent aimed at me, with negligible (!) false positives (the bane of other offerings). -- #################### ## PH, London #################### "IceC" icecATdsl.pipex.com wrote in message ... Hi group, I've recently started getting a lot of Spam. Can anyone recommend a good add-on program which can filter out spam. The message rules in Outlook Express is too time consuming to keep adding new spam addresses to all the time. Ideally I'd like a spam filter program which would just have been select the spam messages, right click and the program would automaticly scan the selected emails for there From email address and auto-add it to a block message area etc. Anyone know of a program which might do this? Gavin -- Remove AT from my address reply directly. |
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I've recently started getting a lot of Spam. Can anyone recommend a good add-on program which can filter out spam. The message rules in Outlook Express is too time consuming to keep adding new spam addresses to all the time. Ideally I'd like a spam filter program which would just have been select the spam messages, right click and the program would automaticly scan the selected emails for there From email address and auto-add it to a block message area etc. Anyone know of a program which might do this? MSOE message rules are pretty futile, for spam control; unless you want to set up a "white list" set of rules (some call this "filtering in"; it pretty much makes an email address useless for open receipt of email, though). A better solution is some kind of third party add-on, or proxy. Two that are highly regarded are Naive Bayesian proxy filters: K9: http://keir.net/k9.html POPFile: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ -- Norman ~Win dain a lotica, En vai tu ri, Si lo ta ~Fin dein a loluca, En dragu a sei lain ~Vi fa-ru les shutai am, En riga-lint |
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OE and Spam filtering software.
IceC wrote:
I've recently started getting a lot of Spam. Can anyone recommend a good add-on program which can filter out spam. The message rules in Outlook Express is too time consuming to keep adding new spam addresses to all the time. Ideally I'd like a spam filter program which would just have been select the spam messages, right click and the program would automaticly scan the selected emails for there From email address and auto-add it to a block message area etc. Blocking messages is ineffective, because the spammers change them every time. I use the following program with great success: http://keir.net/k9.html K9's primary weapon is Bayesian filtering. It takes a little training to learn what your mail looks like, but ultimately you will see it get better and better. It also has whitelist/blacklist capabilities, as well as DNS Blackhole list lookups. -- Bob |
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"Mailwasher".
Norm IceC wrote: Hi group, I've recently started getting a lot of Spam. Can anyone recommend a good add-on program which can filter out spam. The message rules in Outlook Express is too time consuming to keep adding new spam addresses to all the time. Ideally I'd like a spam filter program which would just have been select the spam messages, right click and the program would automaticly scan the selected emails for there From email address and auto-add it to a block message area etc. Anyone know of a program which might do this? Gavin |
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