SpamPal v1.539 beta released

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Description: SpamPal sits between your email program and your POP3/IMAP4
mailbox, checking your email as you retrieve it.

Any email messages that SpamPal considers to be spam will be "tagged" with a
special header; you simply configure your email client to filter anything with
this header into a separate folder and your spam won't be mixed up with the
rest of your email anymore!

Changes:

* "Add to whitelist" dialog can now extract an email address from within
angled brackets - so if you copy-and-paste an entire From: line into it, it'll

* whitelist the email address.

* "Add to whitelist" dialog could not add netblocks to ignorelist if they had
a comment - fixed.

* Now reports "spampal is already running" message correctly.
* Fixed error that was causing crashes when using IMAP4
* Some plugins weren't getting unloaded as they should; fixed.
* Includes some bugfixes to the German language file.

URL: http://www.spampal.org/beta.html
 
Stephan Bennetwrote:
Does it use a Bayesian filter, or some other approach?

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FrequentlyAskedQuestions

POPFile classifies email into categories you define. It can sort into
spam and not spam or into any number of categories you like (e.g.
work, personal, important project, hobby, etc.).

The classification is done using a na?ve Bayes algorithm. In
other words, POPFile uses statistics to track which words are likely
to appear in which messages. This means that POPFile will adapt to
the kind of mail you receive and needs to be trained. Out of the box,
it doesn't know anything about spam or how messages from your mother
differ from those your friends send you. However, if you train it, it
will soon learn how to tell these different kinds of messages apart.


POPFile is an email proxy. In the simpliest possible installation,
POPFile is an intermediary that passes along communications between
your email client (e.g. Outlook) and your email server (e.g.
pop.your_isp.com).

A mail client sends a request through POPFile to the mail server for
email. The mail server responds by sending the email to POPFile which
tags the email with categories or buckets and delivers them
immediately to the mail client.

* Posted via http://www.sixfiles.com/forum
 
And another useful rules-based anti-spam software:

http://prefilter.aklabs.com

SPAM Prefilter is a freeware console application for preliminary spam
removing from your POP3 server. If you receive too much spam and in
fact you don't feel like downlading it, this utility allows you to
delete a big part of spam right from the POP3 server without
receiving the messages.

* Posted via http://www.sixfiles.com/forum
 
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