Spam Filters

[PetrolTed]

Can anyone recommend a spam filter system for Outlook 2000? I've had one too many offers to look at 'Mothers I'd like to ****'!

[tomash]

Ted try This it's pretty good but a monthly subscrption or this which is only 20 dollars for a year.

[smeagol]

I use spam inspector which is pretty good. Gets rid of the obvious ones and learns whats spam and whats not.

www.giantcompany.com/

Hope that helps.

[alunr]

Are you running your own server ted or is it just pop3 from a host? I have a good server level product...

[PetrolTed]

Yes, I do run my own server. It would be good to run something on the server so that I can provide it to clients too.

[spivvy]

alunr said:

Are you running your own server ted or is it just pop3 from a host? I have a good server level product...

i might be interested though

[davidd]

PetrolTed said:

Can anyone recommend a spam filter system for Outlook 2000? I've had one too many offers to look at 'Mothers I'd like to ****'!

hmm milfs..

We installed GFI networks spam filter on the recommendation of a PHer. Stunning bit of kit. Not sure if it will only work on exchange though.

We are trapping at least 300 per day.

D.

[Robertuk]

Theres a great (but quite technical solution for spam)

The idea is you have three types of list.

trusted
untrusted (new)
blocked.

All new email's require a confirmation from the sender.
(since most junk/spam accounts are not real ...and authors cannot reply to a million emails ).

If anyone would like some help email me,
(I'm in the market for a new digital camera :-)

Ramesh

[PetrolTed]

I tried 'ihatespam' and it was useless.

I'm using www.cloudmark.com/ and it's brilliant. Wipes out almost all the spam I'm getting and with no false positives. Looks like I'll be subscribing to that.

[ErnestM]

davidd said:

PetrolTed said: Can anyone recommend a spam filter system for Outlook 2000? I've had one too many offers to look at 'Mothers I'd like to ****'! hmm milfs.. We installed GFI networks spam filter on the recommendation of a PHer. Stunning bit of kit. Not sure if it will only work on exchange though. We are trapping at least 300 per day. D.

Ted... GFI is the best and it does run on Exchange (all flavours). The good thing is - GFI do a free trial period, so if you don't like it - don't pay for it. They call the product "Mail Essentials" and it includes whitlists, blacklists, Reverse DNS checking, header checking, message phrase checking and many more bells and whistles. Ours traps about 400 or so spam mails per day and returns the "user has no mailbox" error to the sending system. Fools them into removing you from lists...

Dead easy to use and set up as well...

ErnestM

[PetrolTed]

The SMTP version works without requiring MS Exchange?

[ErnestM]

PetrolTed said:

The SMTP version works without requiring MS Exchange?

Yes. It kind of acts as an SMTP proxy. It intercepts the mail, does it's thing and then either passes it through or (user configurable) sends it to a file or posts a copy to an "administrator" mailbox. I chose the latter so that I can delete all without having to tunnel into a folder once a day...

ErnestM

[agent006]

ErnestM said:

sends it to a file or posts a copy to an "administrator" mailbox. I chose the latter so that I can delete all without having to tunnel into a folder once a day... ErnestM

Yes lovely job. I'm having to do this at work. Filter through the spam mailbox to check for any invoices or purchase orders. About 1 in 60 of all our incoming emails is genuine, that's before they've been filtered.

[dontlift]

We can provide Spam Filters for all our customer prior to it hitting their mailbox at nominal costs

[squirrelz]

Depending on what mail server software you use, there are a few freeware things around.

I use spamassassin, which I have integrated with postfix on linux. Works fine for me, and can either tag the subject line with "*** SPAM ***" or redirect it to a different mailbox.