anti-spam filter

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I am looking for a good anti-spam filter.

I think I am looking for a Bayesian filter and a dynamic white filter (which
updates itself on new contacts).

Any Suggestions?
 
"Trey" said in news:%[email protected]:
I am looking for a good anti-spam filter.

I think I am looking for a Bayesian filter and a dynamic white filter
(which updates itself on new contacts).

Any Suggestions?
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SpamPal. It's free! Detects based on *where* the e-mail originated using
public DNSBLs (DNS blacklists) and RBLs (open relay blacklists). Whitelist
feature, plus auto-whitelisting, and blacklisting. Blacklist domains by
country. Works with any e-mail client that supports POP3/SMTP. Bayesian
plug-in to statistically weight words to bias them according to use in spam
versus non-spam messages. RegEx plug-in for using regular expressions.
HTML-Modify plug-in to detect spam tricks, strip out web bugs (wipe linked
images but keep embedded images), and more. URL plug-in to detect spam
where there is a link to their known spam web site. Quarantine plug-in lets
you keep a text-only copy of spam-marked e-mails (lets you recover false
positives or provide a copy to report the spam abuse).

Once a message gets tagged as spam, you use a rule in your e-mail client to
determine how YOU want to handle the spam. I move mine into the Junk folder
which has auto-archive configured to permanently delete items older than 3
days. But you could immediately [permanently] delete it if you aren't
worried about false positives (messages marked as spam that you don't
consider spam). I've had about 1 or 2 false positives in the last 2 months.
SpamPal is freeware. It is not trialware or demoware, crippleware,
bannerware, spyware, or liteware (to get you to buy their full version).
It's all free and unfettered at http://www.spampal.org. Works with
POP3/SMTP e-mail clients and accounts. If you use Yahoo or Hotmail, get
YahooPOPs or Hotmail Popper.
 
I was looking for an outlook plugin so everything can be done in outlook. I
think spampal sits between Outlook and the server, right?

*Vanguard* said:
"Trey" said in news:%[email protected]:
I am looking for a good anti-spam filter.

I think I am looking for a Bayesian filter and a dynamic white filter
(which updates itself on new contacts).

Any Suggestions?
Click to expand...

SpamPal. It's free! Detects based on *where* the e-mail originated using
public DNSBLs (DNS blacklists) and RBLs (open relay blacklists). Whitelist
feature, plus auto-whitelisting, and blacklisting. Blacklist domains by
country. Works with any e-mail client that supports POP3/SMTP. Bayesian
plug-in to statistically weight words to bias them according to use in spam
versus non-spam messages. RegEx plug-in for using regular expressions.
HTML-Modify plug-in to detect spam tricks, strip out web bugs (wipe linked
images but keep embedded images), and more. URL plug-in to detect spam
where there is a link to their known spam web site. Quarantine plug-in lets
you keep a text-only copy of spam-marked e-mails (lets you recover false
positives or provide a copy to report the spam abuse).

Once a message gets tagged as spam, you use a rule in your e-mail client to
determine how YOU want to handle the spam. I move mine into the Junk folder
which has auto-archive configured to permanently delete items older than 3
days. But you could immediately [permanently] delete it if you aren't
worried about false positives (messages marked as spam that you don't
consider spam). I've had about 1 or 2 false positives in the last 2 months.
SpamPal is freeware. It is not trialware or demoware, crippleware,
bannerware, spyware, or liteware (to get you to buy their full version).
It's all free and unfettered at http://www.spampal.org. Works with
POP3/SMTP e-mail clients and accounts. If you use Yahoo or Hotmail, get
YahooPOPs or Hotmail Popper.
Click to expand...
 
"Trey" said in news:[email protected]:
I was looking for an outlook plugin so everything can be done in
outlook. I think spampal sits between Outlook and the server, right?

*Vanguard* said:
"Trey" said in news:%[email protected]:
I am looking for a good anti-spam filter.

I think I am looking for a Bayesian filter and a dynamic white
filter (which updates itself on new contacts).

Any Suggestions?
Click to expand...

SpamPal. It's free! Detects based on *where* the e-mail originated
using public DNSBLs (DNS blacklists) and RBLs (open relay
blacklists). Whitelist feature, plus auto-whitelisting, and
blacklisting. Blacklist domains by country. Works with any e-mail
client that supports POP3/SMTP. Bayesian plug-in to statistically
weight words to bias them according to use in spam versus non-spam
messages. RegEx plug-in for using regular expressions. HTML-Modify
plug-in to detect spam tricks, strip out web bugs (wipe linked
images but keep embedded images), and more. URL plug-in to detect
spam where there is a link to their known spam web site. Quarantine
plug-in lets you keep a text-only copy of spam-marked e-mails (lets
you recover false positives or provide a copy to report the spam
abuse).

Once a message gets tagged as spam, you use a rule in your e-mail
client to determine how YOU want to handle the spam. I move mine
into the Junk folder which has auto-archive configured to
permanently delete items older than 3 days. But you could
immediately [permanently] delete it if you aren't worried about
false positives (messages marked as spam that you don't consider
spam). I've had about 1 or 2 false positives in the last 2 months.
SpamPal is freeware. It is not trialware or demoware, crippleware,
bannerware, spyware, or liteware (to get you to buy their full
version). It's all free and unfettered at http://www.spampal.org.
Works with POP3/SMTP e-mail clients and accounts. If you use Yahoo
or Hotmail, get YahooPOPs or Hotmail Popper.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

SpamPal runs as a local proxy to which any e-mail client, including Outlook,
can connect. This means Outlook can use it when you run it. It also means
you can use a mail monitor to check for new e-mails without having to leave
Outlook running, and the spam will still get detected. In fact, I use Magic
Mail Monitor (mmm3.sourceforge.net) which has filter rules that can delete
the message off the server if it got marked as spam when it went through
SpamPal so I don't later have to waste the bandwidth and time to later
download it into Outlook to delete it locally.

There is a company (don't remember its name but there was a big brouhaha in
SpamPal's forums about them) which was given permission to redistribute
SpamPal but they will add an installation wizard to make it easier to
install. The brouhaha was over them charging for their product which is 97%
SpamPal which is free, but they are charging for their install wizard plus
they will be providing their own tech support separate of the SpamPal
forums. Not all users are handy at setting up proxies. They say they will
also eventually develop and release a plug-in for Outlook (for free). I
haven't heard they released their product yet. The plug-in is really an
interface to the SpamPal proxy so SpamPal is still running anyway.

Considering all the functions provided by SpamPal and especially after you
add all the plug-ins, I'm not sure you'll find a plug-in nearly as capable.
Besides, plug-ins have to be designed rock solid with lots of alpha testing
so they don't hang or crash Outlook. When Outlook loads, it also loads all
the plug-ins. If a plug-in is slow, hangs, or crashes then it does the same
to Outlook. The same when Outlook unloads but first has to unload all the
plug-ins.

I did test using SpamNet from Cloudmark (www.cloudmark.com) which runs as an
Outlook plug-in. It was beta at the time. It hung way too often so it also
hung Outlook. Right up to when they released it, SpamNet was still hanging
or crashing Outlook so I never bothered to pay for their released version.
SpamNet works by having its users vote on what constitutes spam. So too
often I would get spam that wasn't yet detected as spam because the
threshold had not yet been reached by users voting on it (because not many
other users had gotten the spam yet). So it really is useful in getting rid
of *known* spam messages. That's why many spammers shove in a bunch of
garbage words so the hash value or signature for the message is different
and so the message copy you receive is logically different than the one that
someone else got.
 
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