Technical peeps -- Spam

[Kraig]

Alrighty peeps... other than Spam Arrest (www.spamarrest.com), what are some of the best Spam Filters out there? I receive a LOT of spam each day... I mean 150+ pieces. It's time to use a filter. Spam Arrest is cool but I'm curious to know what other really good options are out there.

Thoughts?

[mekim]

i just use thunderbird & i've trained the spam filter. maybe get 1 or 2 pieces of spam every other day that actually make it to my inbox.

[omega_image]

lol stop looking at porn kraig =P

you could use an authentify tool (none off the top of my head), or just increase your spam filters on whatever email provider/program you're using.

[ebbomega]

Gmail.

2 years and less than a dozen misses and not a SINGLE false positive.

[rustybob]

Yeah, I use Gmal, and I've had maybe 5 false positives, and probably 10 spam emails that actually hit my inbox that didn't get flagged.

But I'm assuming you're looking for a client side, and not a server-side, spam filter?

[FeelGood]

another gmail lover here.

and yes rustybob im sure he is looking for a client side piece of software to block his spam since i highly doubt kraig wants to switch to gmail.

[Kraig]

That's the thing... SpamArrest is a totally seperate inbox (server side) and guarantees 99.9% success with spam. I would have to switch over my Blackberry, etc. but before making that kind of major change, I just wanted to see what else is out there.

And Adam -- I wish it was from porn. <sigh> It's because my Twisted email is always out there on various sites with full public view to be added to lame lists.

[ebbomega]

Another neat thing about Gmail is that you can actually point your own mail dns entries to gmail's servers and set up gmail accounts under your own domain. Pretty slick...

[Jonny Dubbs]

your isp should be able to enable their spam filtering at the backend... a better option than client software (imho) it will give the spam messages a little tag, from there you just tell your mail client what to do with them..

[apri_peel]

i find shaw filters things out quite well. i only get 2-3 spam message per week, tops.
you can have your other email forwarded to the shaw account and it all gets filtered.
you can also pair that up with gmail and im sure you can forever forget what spam is :)

[frogprincess]

KRAIG is GMAIL he totally rocks it

[sNyx]

Originally Posted by mekim

i just use thunderbird & i've trained the spam filter. maybe get 1 or 2 pieces of spam every other day that actually make it to my inbox.

my thunderbird is down to picking up 10-20 spams per day across two dozen emails checked. trust me some of the @fnk.ca are whorishly spammed. however with a little care it can be filtered out.


as for spam arrest, I could only imagine some of the people who mail me (knowing barely how to send an email) would most likely ignore, delete or forget to confirm their address. a portion of my work clients brave on the computer to peck out details I need and remove themselves from the computer directly after sending. thus not receiving the confirm email spam arrest would send until their next login.

[Kraig]

Good point there Snyxy.

[rustybob]

If you want client-side protection, there are two peer-to-peer spam programs out there: Cloudmark ($35/year subscription required) and No Hawkers - Antispam. They both use peer-to-peer to get updates out very quickly. I have't tried No Hawkers yet, but Cloudmark I have. No Hawkers is free at the moment, so it's worth trying out. Cloudmark has a 15-day trial available as well.

[Kraig]

^^ Dude you rock. Cloudmark is great. Doing the job really well.

[j3rk]

http://spamassassin.apache.org/

here are more howtos on seting up your server proper to avoid spam.

http://www.howtoforge.com/taxonomy/term/24

As someone who works in an industry who sends spam. If you set up your server properly with proper spam filters, you shouldn't receive much. Dont signup for seedy mail lists and you shouldn't get spam. Usually SPAM is because PEBCAK.

[thechix0r]

Gmail for me... nothing makes it through... I love it

[ppcock]

if its the same shit over and over again
call up shaw, they'll do something about it

fuckin shaw.

[Kraig]

^^ Our twisted.ca doman is not through Shaw.