anti spam software

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hi all, im looking for an easy piece of software to stop spam, i have a
blacklist of nearly 1 meg of email addresses up to now & foxmail will not
allow me to add anymore so i need a different piece of kit.

any ideas.

not mailwasher im on win98se.
 
zoo said:
hi all, im looking for an easy piece of software to stop spam, i have a
blacklist of nearly 1 meg of email addresses up to now & foxmail will not
allow me to add anymore so i need a different piece of kit.
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Have a look at Magic Mail Monitor

http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/

I don't know if it has a max on a blacklist...
any ideas.

not mailwasher im on win98se.
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Mailwasher not work on 98SE?
 
hi all, im looking for an easy piece of software to stop spam, i have a
blacklist of nearly 1 meg of email addresses up to now & foxmail will not
allow me to add anymore so i need a different piece of kit.

any ideas.

not mailwasher im on win98se.
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I've been using the last freeware version of Mailwasher to support more than
one account on Windows '98 (and 98SE) for a couple of years now. It's
blacklisting is excellent, because you can actually block entire domains
with wildcards (*). And not only domains like *@internet.com, but ones
which try to trick it by sending from somewhere like
(e-mail address removed) can be blocked with *@*.internet.com

Get the last freeware version from Scott's Freeware Goodies
http://www.comcen.com.au/~scottford/_sgt/m2m2s3_1.htm
 
Spampal consistently crashed my ADSL router - may be a one-off but worth
monitoring it closely at first. It does work well otherwise.
 
Spampal can do that too. But what I really like is excellent DNSBL support
(public blacklists of known spammers) which is more reliable than popular
Bayesian filtering (less hits but no false positives)
 
Spampal can do that too. But what I really like is excellent DNSBL support
(public blacklists of known spammers) which is more reliable than popular
Bayesian filtering (less hits but no false positives)
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The free version that I recommended comes with the default DNS Blacklist servers Spamcop & ORDB.
You can also add any others that you wish to.
 
hi all, im looking for an easy piece of software to stop spam, i have a
blacklist of nearly 1 meg of email addresses up to now & foxmail will not
allow me to add anymore so i need a different piece of kit.
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A blacklist of email addresses is not the way to go, as you have found out.
Have you considered whitelisting?
 
zoo, Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:22:46 GMT
hi all, im looking for an easy piece of software to stop spam, i have a
blacklist of nearly 1 meg of email addresses up to now & foxmail will not
allow me to add anymore so i need a different piece of kit.

any ideas.

not mailwasher im on win98se.
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I use spambayes, after a bit if training it works great.
 
im looking for an easy piece of software to stop spam,
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K9 http://keir.net/k9.html

I started using it about 5 months ago. Within a week it was running at
a 97+% effective rate with a minimum number of false positives. I
stopped using it briefly when my email software began doing it's own
filtering, but went back to K9 very soon.

Mark Kolber
Denver, Colorado
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email? Remove ".no.spam"
 
K9 http://keir.net/k9.html

I started using it about 5 months ago. Within a week it was running at
a 97+% effective rate with a minimum number of false positives. I
stopped using it briefly when my email software began doing it's own
filtering, but went back to K9 very soon.
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Some filters comnbine several approaches - I'm suspicious of useful
Bayes will remain, given the anti-bayesian attacks in most spam now.

www.spampal.org - Major's in DNSBL, but has other plugins

www.spamhilator.com - Initially Bayes (and I thought REGEXP, but can't
seem to find that) - the "Spoofed" filter sounds useful if it can pick
up faked source addresses.

The major categorizers of a lot of spam are:
1. Faked from proxy, travels from source direct to your ISP, from a
mismatched domain name/IP
2. Message ID typical of spam / bulkmail tool
3. Body often includes invisible (0px / 2px text) - that is a "shoot
on sight", and ideally should be filtered and discarded before the
anti-bayes crap hits any Bayesian filter.

Some filters may allow you to set the order, but Bayes and DNSBL would
normally be placed after explicit rules-based filtering anyway
 
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