OT free spam program reccomendation?

Dave, I use mailwasher pro, but there is a free one at mailwasher.netmailwasher.netOpen ↗ just don't use the
bounce function bill g

DH said:

Hi, I'm getting tired of constantly updating my Junk Mail utility built into Outlook 2000.

What _free_ spam removal programs can you recommend for me? Thanks, Dave Horne

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DH said:

What _free_ spam removal programs can you recommend for me?

If you're willing to try a different mail client, Mozilla <http://mozilla.org/>, either in its full
suite with browser or the Thunderbird mail-only client, has a nice built-in spam filter. You train
it by marking messages as junk or not-junk, and you can configure it to only flag spam, or to move
it to a Junk folder.

You can also choose to view messages as plain text only (which prevents web bugs from being
triggered).

The Mozilla browser's popup killer is wonderful. Of course, it only stops web site popups, not
Windows Messenger popups; to kill those, you need to shut off the Messenger service, or keep your
Win2K/XP boxen behind a firewall.

Mozilla binaries are available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, OS/2, Solaris, and
Tru64 Unix.

Cost: $0.00

Note that you'll have to install Java and Flash plugins separately. I can live with that.
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Roosevelt, May 7, 1918

Bill, I installed the program, but for me, at least, it brings about
another problem. From their web site I copied this:

If you check your account with MailWasher first, you can delete or bounce the emails you do not
want. Then, when you use your email program, it downloads only the remaining emails, those that you
want to read. [end]

I use Outlook 2000 as my agenda program and it is always open. My wife also uses Outlook 2000 for
her e-mail account. I can set the option in Outlook 2000 _not_ to check the mail every so many
minutes, but then my wife misses out on her e-mails until she 'retireves' them manually. I
suppose if I were to pay for the 'full' version, I would add my wife's acciunt to MailWasher and
go from there.

Does what I wrote make sense to you? TIA, Dave

Spam Assasin does a decent job.
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Some email service providers may offer Spam Assasin running on their servers and configurable by
their customers.

There is (was) a free Pop3 proxy version of it known as SAproxy. It's a program you run that sits
between your pop3 email client application and your mail server. It may or may not be available from
some download archives.

SAproxyPro is a commercial ($29.95) version with a free trial license. statalabs.comstatalabs.comOpen ↗

Used in conjunction with email client application message processing rules, you can automatically
delete or otherwise handle messages SA tags as spam. I've used it for a year or so and find, with a
little tuning to my preferences, it catches 90% of spam with very few false positives.

Jon Meinecke

A friend of mine (also an American living in Holland) gave me the following tip ...

popfile.sourceforge.netpopfile.sourceforge.netOpen ↗ Popfile is _free_, but it took me a while to figure out how to get
it working with Outlook 2000. I had to alter settings in Outlook 2000 (as per their instructions)
and you train the program over a period of a few days. Mail comes in through this program and you
label it as you see fit. You also have to work with the Rules Wizard in Outlook 2000.

The program changes the subject of various e-mails to include the word [spam] (or whatever you
want). You then create a folder in Outlook 2000 and along with the Rules Wizard, it moves those
mails with [spam] in the subject to your new Spam folder.

It's not an intuitive program, but I have most of it figured out and will go back and read the
manual. The plus side, it's free. I'm still learning the program, so if you download it and install,
I may not be able to answer your questions .... but I might be able to.

BTW, my friend claims that over 99% of all mail this program labels spam is, in fact, spam.

Okay this is not quite what you are asking but you can effectively limit spam by a few
simple measures.

The first is getting a hotmail spamadress like my "briangoebbels." Always use this for newsgroups
and _anything_ that wants your email. Its also a good idea to use this in any communication with
americans be it websites or mail.

Seems to work for me anyway but I suspect my ISP filters spam from my workmail too so its very rare
for me to get any there. Tons on hotmail but I set options to not see anything suspected of being
spam so I just get a few each day in the "nonspam" inbox. Might delete a few real mails if someone
does groupmails but so be it. I also never open mails without a header that indicates recumbent or
other relevant content so using "(none)" as topic is a bad idea.

Mikael

Mikael, yea, the problem is I have been using my e-mail address for a few years and it's too late at
this point to use another address. For news groups, I use a third e-mail address and I simply delete
any e-mails to that address.

BTW, that program I installed that was free is excellent. It takes a bit of time to set up, but it's
working on its own and placing my spam e-mails into a Spam folder I created. I still have to
occasionally reclassify e-mails so the program learns that what just arrived is spam, but after a
few days it should have learned just about everything. It's really too bad this program takes a bit
of time to set up and understand.

bill g said:

Dave, I use mailwasher pro, but there is a free one at mailwasher.netmailwasher.netOpen ↗ just don't use
the bounce function bill g

Another vote here for Mailwasher. I got it when I started getting 200-250 worm-laden mails a day.
That's finally subsided but I still run the program. The best thing about it is that it deletes
stuff from your mail server without ever downloading it to your machine. It has a great interface
for building filters as well.

Dave Clary/Corpus Christi,TX

DH said:

Hi, I'm getting tired of constantly updating my Junk Mail utility built into Outlook 2000.

Start by getting a mail client that doesn't do half the spammer's work for them ;-)

Seriously, I have a mail client which doesn't download images unless I tell it to - that alone
reduced the amount of spam over a six-month period by about half (the image URLs can have arguments
which confirm the address is live). And of course with no Outlook there are no worm infections.

I also run SpamAssassin on my mail server, which is both free and brilliant. Only works on xNIX
tho, AFAIK.

Guy
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