Babar
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join:2001-05-09
Washington
| Good OE Spam Filter? Can anyone recommend a good (and preferably free) spam filter for Outlook Express?
My wife doesn't want to learn a new mail client (in spite of my urging) so I'd like to try out one or two that you experts recommend.
TIA!
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sivran
Long Live The Suite
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Arlington, TX
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| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? You could set up K9 for her. It supports auto-config for OE and seems quite good at spam-catching. I use it with Pegasus mail.
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Jacobc
join:2005-11-01
Las Vegas, NV
| Yes check out www.mail-block.com This is more then a filter, it's a robust service that will allow you to keep existing email accounts and stop all of the SPAM from coming into your email client. Additionally it is a email service so you have the option of checking your email when you are away from you home computer and there is "no spam". | |
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Birds
join:2004-10-23
| SPAMPal might be worth a look.
It uses white and black lists as well as DNSBL lookups (DNSBL lookups block messages originating from domain names known for SPAMs).
There are also various plug-ins that provide more functionality such as converting HTML based e-mails to plain text, checking HTTP addresses in e-mails, etc. | |
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timcuth
Braves Fan
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join:2000-09-18
Pelham, AL
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Cudni
La Merma - Vigilado
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join:2003-12-20
Someshire | Likewise, K9
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salzan
Experienced Optimist
Premium
join:2004-01-08
WA State
| I use K9 as well. I set it up to run in conjunction with Poptray. Since K9 stores copies of the filtered email. It's a good idea to make sure your AV checks the folder where K9 stores the good/spam files. The files are saved with the extension .kml so you may need to set up your AV to scan files of the type. | |
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Zev0
Old Sarge
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join:2001-08-21
Ocean Park, WA
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? I will wholeheartedly second the use of K9 and Poptray. Since
integrating those 2 together, I have seen virtually zero spam in my mailbox. K9 identifies it and poptray deletes it. Only thing that comes to my inbox is legitimate mail that I WANT to see. If any legitimate email is wrongly tagged as spam, you just periodically open k9 (which stores the emails for a specified time, by you, scan and if a legit email is there, mark it as good. Next time K9 will allow it to pass as good.
Nothing better then those 2 FREE softwares working together.
If anyone needs help setting them up, I'll gladly lend a hand.
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Babar
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join:2001-05-09
Washington | Thanks to all. I will give K9 a try, then check out SpamPal on her machine.
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MrBradTX
join:2001-05-23
Carrollton, TX | I cannot recommend Norton Anti-Spam. In my experience, it misses most obvious spam, tags but doesn't quarrantine the spam it does detect, and its false positives have outnumbered its legitimate detections and quarrantines. | |
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Mele20
Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
1 edit | Popfile is the best by far.
»popfile.sourceforge.net/
Edited to say that a friend, who is the webmaster of the most popular website for modems, told me some time ago that Popfile can be trained to be 99.5% accurate as he trained it on the hundreds of emails he gets from readers of his site. I know others who use it and nothing equals it in accuracy. | |
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mongol
join:2004-06-21
Friendswood, TX
| Just use Pop-Peeper and save yourself the hassles of spam filtering. Check your mail on the server before downloading and delete the junk ahead of time. Check it out at:www.poppeeper.com
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FL Programer
join:2005-11-03
Daytona Beach, FL | I just started using Mail-Block and it is working for me, I plan on showing it to our people at work | |
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atangel
Now What??
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join:2002-02-18
Bronx, NY
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? Challenge-response programs like Mail-blcokcan be really really tiresome.
Well, here are other opinions on them:
»Mail-Block
For me, Mailwasher works great. Especially once you get it up to speed. K9 would also be a choice.
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join:2005-11-11
Las Vegas, NV
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? said by atangel  :Challenge-response programs like Mail-blcokcan be really really tiresome. For me, Mailwasher works great. Especially once you get it up to speed. K9 would also be a choice. What gets really tiresome is having to deal with junk email. With the system from »www.mail-block.com, which I use the only person that gets annoyed is the person trying to send me spam. | |
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jimkyle
Btrieve Guy
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join:2002-10-20
Oklahoma City, OK
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| I installed POPFile on my wife's machine. It requires some training, at first, to help it identify what you consider to be spam, but after that initial period it just works silently and in the background.
I configured it to modify the header of any message that it identifies as spam, and then created a filter in OE to put any message with the modified header into the Deleted mailbox. Jo manually inspects the deleted mailbox every day, just to be certain nothing is misidentified, and if she finds a message there that should not have been deleted, she calls me to come fix things up!
POPFile includes a whitelist capability (which it calls a magnet) and I've created magnets for her regular correspondents (our sons and a couple of ex-co-workers) but from time to time a valid message does get trapped out.
You can find it at »popfile.sourceforge.net/ and it's completely free... | |
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join:2006-01-06
Grand Rapids, MI | Re: Good OE Spam Filter? I recommend to all to try Spam Bully »www.spambully.com I am absolutely in love with this program. My Spam went from almost 100 per day down to zero. | |
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Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? Why didn't you get Popfile? It is free and the orginal Baysian filter. If you want to buy an anti-spam filter than I would suggest purchasing Bit Defender Pro which is one of the top 3 AV and it has an excellent Baysian filter built into its email module.
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Babar
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join:2001-05-09
Washington
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? said by Mele20 :Why didn't you get Popfile? It is free and the orginal Baysian filter. 95% of the spam on my wife's Comcast account is of the image variety - the message is an embedded gif. My understanding is that a Bayesian filter is ineffective in this case.
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? Hmm....I would think, but I don't know really, that if she reads her mail in plain text (one should not use HTML for reading) then the filter would get it. Thanks for explaining why you felt Popfile wasn't a good solution. I do know that my friends who use it all report 99.8% filtering success with it after about six months of use and 95% effectiveness from the start. I would have to ask them if they get embedded gifs spam. I don't even know exactly what that is as I read all mail in plain text and reply in plain text also for safety reasons. Plus, spam, I read through the properties tab. I never, ever open directly any email that smells like spam so I'm ignorant about embedded gifs spam.
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Babar
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join:2001-05-09
Washington
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter?
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said by Mele20 :I would have to ask them if they get embedded gifs spam. I don't even know exactly what that is... Here's an example. The actual spam is a gif image. The extra text is an attempt to get by Bayesian filters. The from and to addresses are both spoofed.
This is from my client - Thunderbird, which I have succesfully filtered to catch about 90% of the crap. Can't do it w/ OE... 
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join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? Geeez...thanks for the example! I had no idea they were doing that sort of thing to get around the baysian filters. Thunderbird's filter is baysian also.
I'm sure glad I get so little spam. I changed my main address months ago and made it dictionary proof and since then I have gotten no spam at all in it. The only one I get spam in is the one from this site, but only a very small amount.
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join:2004-06-21
Friendswood, TX
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? I just use Pop Peeper. I can look at whats on the server, view the headers or even look at the message. If its spam I can then delete it right there without wasting time downloading it . It comes with skins to make it pretty and a few plugins..:)
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Stem Bolt
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join:2002-11-08
Cleveland, OH
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? said by mongol :I just use Pop Peeper. I can look at whats on the server, view the headers or even look at the message. If its spam I can then delete it right there without wasting time downloading it . It comes with skins to make it pretty and a few plugins..:) I use Pop Peeper to do this also. Works out great. Although I have all my e-mail fetched and filtered through my main POP account that scans for viruses and spam, a few pieces of spam manage to get through once in awhile. This where Pop Peeper comes in handy. | |
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marti
Color outside the lines
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join:2001-12-14
Houston, TX
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| I liked K9, after days of weeks of setting it up. I was running a secondary ISP's (email and limited dial-up hours per month) via SSL through SBC DSL. It was a pain to set up, and was working through a newsgroup -- had new internet friends sending screen shots and detailed procedures via email. I was able to get K9 talking through my SSL interface. After some point in time, I ended up deleting the spammed accounts (the main email account through that ISP was never spammed) and ended up with spam free email.
That said, I did love K9 and would recommend it. | |
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IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
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join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL
| Neither of my options would be free. Actually one of them was at one time. I've used Mailwasher - liked it - but it does require some interactivity in the beginning. I like my current choice much better. And think it would be easier to use for most people.
I'm currently using the antispam feature in ZASS ( ZoneAlarm Security Suite ) this is powered by MailFrontier. I'm very pleased with how it works.
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ken_92030
Premium
join:2005-11-25
Saulsbury, TN
| said by Babar :Can anyone recommend a good (and preferably free) spam filter for Outlook Express? TIA! I've found using OE message rules and block senders lists does a pretty good job for me. It's intuitive and easy to learn.
I've heard POPfiles is pretty good. Thunderbird didn't empress me but that was a couple of years ago. I wouldn't recommend MailBlocks, I gave it a shot for a few months and then using it.
Good luck which ever way you go. | |
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thedip
join:2001-02-09
Beaver Falls, PA
| When a friend of mine needed an easy-to-use solution for spam filtering for OE, I found Spamihilator ( »www.spamihilator.com/download/index.php ). It seems to work fairly well, and easy to set up. Also free. | |
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Babar
Premium
join:2001-05-09
Washington
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? said by thedip :When a friend of mine needed an easy-to-use solution for spam filtering for OE, I found Spamihilator ( » www.spamihilator.com/download/index.php ). It seems to work fairly well, and easy to set up. Also free. That one looks very promising! The author has a plug-in for the embedded gif problem. Will check it out later this week.
Thanks!
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join:2003-11-18
New Milford, CT | Re: Good OE Spam Filter? Cloudmark worked well for me, when I used OE. Take a look at that one. | |
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Babar
Premium
join:2001-05-09
Washington
| Thanks again for the suggestion of Spamihilator - it's working quite well on my wife's machine. The optional plug-ins are great, and have solved all her problems. Good find!
»www.spamihilator.com/download/index.php
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thedip
join:2001-02-09
Beaver Falls, PA | Glad I could help  | |
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mhb23re
@cgocable.net
| Re: Good OE Spam Filter? I've used both K9 and Popfile. My personal findings?
Popfile is more accurate than K9, period. It'll filter out adds & the most arcane spam that K9 just won't find. This is, in all due respect, likely because Robin Keir hasn't updated the (free) K9 program since April/04, and Popfile does upgrade periodically.
K9 has a nicer interface, & it's much easier to go back in time to look at old emails. This gets cumbersome (slow, in other words) once you have several thousand emails in your system, however. Another benefit of K9 is you can set it up to check your mail server WITHOUT downloading the email, & delete offending spam before it's brought to your email client. A good option, but this gets you back to 100% mail inspection, which is why you wanted an antispam program in the first place.
MAJOR DRAWBACK TO POPFILE:
I am speaking from my own personal experience, here: I found when I ran Popfile in the system tray, it tended to lock up my system, requiring a manual reset. Big pain in the @ss, unfortunately. As of this post, I note Popfile has released a new version that might clear this up, however. I've downloaded it and am trying again (fingers crossed!). Again, on first blush, Popfile nailed some spam that breezed through K9, no questions asked.
Again, the above is a personal issue and may be due to conflicts on my own setup. I have read others have had this problem in the past, though, so we'll see if the new version of PF clears up the problem. Oh yeah, and less-experienced users might be intimidated by the Popfile setup. It's pretty straightforward, however, and there's likely PF user groups of FAQs to help a stumped user.
Good luck!
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