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sidneycol... sidneycol...
 
M$1 January 22, 2009 01:47 AM

What is a good Spam Filter?

I'm looking for a good spam filter, but don't want to pay a fortune for it. Any suggestions?
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cyberangel cyberangel
 
 January 22, 2009 02:03 AM
How about free? :)

Spamihilator is a pretty, easy to use anti-spam tool that works with any email client and, thanks to Bayesian filters, has a good detection rate.
http://www.spamihilator.com/index.php?lang=en

POPFile is a powerful and flexible email classification POP and NNTP proxy that you can use to filter spam efficiently and categorize good mail automatically.
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl

eXpurgate is an effortless but highly effective spam (and virus) filtering service. http://www.spamfence.net/

Spamato filters POP and IMAP accounts for spam with the potential for high precision and plug-ins that make it easy to use in Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. http://www.spamato.net/

SpamRIP is a highly precise spam filter for any POP email account. A separate program, it lets you preview and delete junk before it reaches your default inbox. http://www.spamrip.com/

SpamWeasel is one of the more powerful anti-spam tools.
http://www.mailgate.com/products/spamweas/sw_feat.asp
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clarusvisu... clarusvisu...
 
January 22, 2009 01:52 AM
Well, you can't beat free, and here is a link to 14 solid free spam filters, with the title of each one linked to a detailed description of their pros and cons. See which fits your needs best.
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http://email.about.com/od/windowsspamfightingtools/tp/free_spam.htm


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mrshl mrshl
 
January 22, 2009 01:56 AM
The best spam filter I've used is Gmail, which of course is free. If you're an Outlook user, you can access Gmail using both POP3 and IMAP protocols. The obvious downside is that you have to have a Gmail account. You can import your existing email into Gail, but I've had mixed luck filtering my external email using Gmail's built-in spam protection.

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dumblonde dumblonde
 
January 22, 2009 02:42 AM
I have to agree that gmail is an excellent spam filter. Maybe you can get a forwarding service so your email can get to gmail.

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pvera pvera
 
January 22, 2009 03:28 AM
Can't beat Gmail, especially since it allows you to use any email address as long as you can prove it is yours. I have a business on the side and this lets me email my customers using my @mybusiness.com email address instead of Gmail.

This doesn't work perfectly of course, since some email clients will understand that the email did start at Gmail and will say something like "sent by joe@gmail.com on behalf of joe@mycompany.com" but still beats having to run your own spam catcher.

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djchen djchen
 
January 22, 2009 02:21 AM
I assume your asking because you host your own email servers?
Gmail definitely has excellent spam filters, part of that is because they have a lot of users can and are able to use user reported spam data to filter out new kinds of spam. If you have your own domain (ie dot com,net,org, etc, I highly recommend Google Apps:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/editions.html
(Click Get Started Under Standard Edition [free])
That gives you all the goodness of Gmail but still be able to have your own email address. And if you dont have a domain, you can easily register one for like $10/year.

That is probably the best anti-spam I would recommend, because Google knows more about spam than the average desktop spam filter software.

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