Recommend a spam filter for Outlook2003 (i.e. anything better than Spambayes?)

S

ship

Hi

Can anyone recommend a spam filter for Outlook2003?
I have tried SpayBayes for a couple of year... but now want something
that works better!

(I need something that works on my PC -i.e. within Outlook)

The problems with SpamBayer are that:

a) it seem to filter legit stuff from real people
There is now way of saying "NEVER filter email from these people I have
written to."

b) I keep having to set up new mail accounts on my WindowsXP - and each
time I set a new Outlook account up it 'forgets' everything it has
learnt!

c) there is no help from OTHER users. i.e. the community of users
appears to be
unable to share what they all describe as spam. That is, I *personally*
have to
train it each time I set up an new Outlook account... :-(

d) it is now very out of date - no new release for many months...

Surely there is something better out there.

Yes I suppose I am prepared to pay - but no very much. Say GBP10.00
once off.

With thanks


Ship
Shiperton Henethe
 
G

Guest

Cloudmark is my favorite. Integrates directly into Outlook. Allows you to
manually identify an item as spam for their list. Allows you to UNblock items
that fall into your spam folder. Does an excellent job overall. I have used
it for 2-3 years. Purchased it for my home computer too after having it at
the office. Does require annual renewal (renewal runs USD $19.95)
 
S

ship

mailwasher.
good prog.

plh
paul
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Okay but how many and which others have you tried?
Why do you recommend them...
And (save me a little time) roughly what do they cost to own/run?

Ta


Ship
Shiperton Henethe
 
E

Ed Jay

ship scribed:
Okay but how many and which others have you tried?
Why do you recommend them...
And (save me a little time) roughly what do they cost to own/run?
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I've used spamPal for about a year. I tried several others, but spamPal was
the most comprehensive. And, it's free.
 
C

CJM

Paul said:
No need to try others when the one I have works.
Then again, I never use Outlook and wouldn't if you paid me to.
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Well I have tried others... and all were imperfect in one way or another,
but all were better than nothing. But Mailwasher stands out from the crowd
for me.
Cos it works and you asked.
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lol.

Yeah it works. It's slightly different in approach to many others, but that
is it's greatest strength - you filter your email long before it ever
reaches your PC. You don't need to worry if your preferred AV software can
handle the latest email virus... the email will never make it to your PC.
http://www.mailwasher.net/
free and paid versions
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I used the free version for a couple of years but I depend on it so much and
get so much use out of it, I now have the paid version. I think it is only
£20 or thereabouts.

Additionally, you can link it into SpamCop if you want to be more proactive
about tackling spammers.

CJM
 
S

ship

No need to try others when the one I have works.
Then again, I never use Outlook and wouldn't if you paid me to.


Cos it works and you asked.
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Problem - I have 4 different email accounts and the free version
only lets me use one!

Never mind. Shame - it did look quite promsing - I think I used
mailwasher
about 6 years ago...



Ship
 
O

Outlook Guy

ship said:
a) it seem to filter legit stuff from real people
There is now way of saying "NEVER filter email from these people I have
written to."
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Yes you can! Set you're spambays to delay processing your inbox for
spam, then set up an Outlook rule that moves email based on entries in a
list that you create. Once moved out of your inbox, Spambays analyze
the messages. This would be even more elegant if your rule could be
based on your safe senders list - there may be a way to do this but if
there is, I don't know how. Never the less, it's simple enough to
create a safe contacts folder and just drag safe emails into it to
create the contact(s).

b) I keep having to set up new mail accounts on my WindowsXP - and each
time I set a new Outlook account up it 'forgets' everything it has
learnt!
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New accounts? I think you mean new profiles. Since there is only one
inbox per profile, spambays will work with all account delivering mail
to that inbox.

If your referring to new profiles. Assuming you're connected to an
Exchange server, you could try setting your spam and ham folders to be
in public folders so that when when you set up a new profile, you can
teach the new profile based on the contents of the public folders. I'm
not sure that this would work, and other's might flag some mail as spam
that you don't consider spam.
c) there is no help from OTHER users. i.e. the community of users
appears to be
unable to share what they all describe as spam. That is, I *personally*
have to
train it each time I set up an new Outlook account... :-(
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Yes, this does seem to be a bit of an oversight, however, one man's junk
is another man's .........

d) it is now very out of date - no new release for many months...

Surely there is something better out there.

Yes I suppose I am prepared to pay - but no very much. Say GBP10.00
once off.

With thanks
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I actually agree with you; spambayes is not awesome, but then it's not
really terrible either.

I personally have such a serious spam problem, I'm about 30 thousand
spams (a couple of days worth) away from giving in and finally going
with a 100% white list: ie only accepting email from those in my safe
senders list; even that's not 100% protection but it's something.
 
S

ship

I personally have such a serious spam problem, I'm about 30 thousand
spams (a couple of days worth) away from giving in and finally going
with a 100% white list: ie only accepting email from those in my safe
senders list; even that's not 100% protection but it's something.
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I've abandoned SpamBayes for now.
CloudMark as recommended somewhere in this thread is doing quite a good
job so far without any training... so I stick with it for now.

Ship
 
B

Brian Tillman

ship said:
CloudMark as recommended somewhere in this thread is doing quite a
good job so far without any training... so I stick with it for now.
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Actually, it does get trained - by everyone who subscribes to the service.
 

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