SPAM FLAGGING/FLOGGING

[Ed Thomas]

Is there any freeware available that flags "spam" when using Outlook?
Seems like all the ones I've tried out make use of a White List and other
means of allowing messages into my in-box.

I figure if I can eyeball a message and know its spam on the basis of
subject and/or nonsense character strings some software might be able
to do the same thin.

While I've settled on the Cloudmark Spam flagging system (at about $2
a month) I'm wondering if there are any alternatives that have the same
ease of use and capabilities.

Ed Thomas

 

[GlintingHedgehog]

Is there any freeware available that flags "spam" when using Outlook?
Seems like all the ones I've tried out make use of a White List and other
means of allowing messages into my in-box.

I figure if I can eyeball a message and know its spam on the basis of
subject and/or nonsense character strings some software might be able
to do the same thin.

Popfile does a pretty good job of this. It sits between your mail-server
and your email client (any pop3 client) and sorts your email into "buckets"
depending on what it contains. You set up buckets of your choice, and tell
it which emails go where - within a few hours it's very accurate. You can
set it to add a line to the headers or a word to the subject so that you
can then sort your mail as it comes into Outlook, perhaps putting anything
that Popfile marks as spam into a separate folder which you can glance at
occasionally to check

I think it's popfile.org but I could be wrong, and I'm on a dial-up
connection on a laptop with low battery power and the power's off here, so
you'll have to google for yourself - sorry!

 

[Bob Adkins]

Is there any freeware available that flags "spam" when using Outlook?
Seems like all the ones I've tried out make use of a White List and other
means of allowing messages into my in-box.

I figure if I can eyeball a message and know its spam on the basis of
subject and/or nonsense character strings some software might be able
to do the same thin.

While I've settled on the Cloudmark Spam flagging system (at about $2
a month) I'm wondering if there are any alternatives that have the same
ease of use and capabilities.

SpamPal is a very effective one. It has several types of spam recognition,
and was ~99% effective for me until my ISP began spam filtering at the
server.

 

[Aaron]

Popfile does a pretty good job of this. It sits between your
mail-server and your email client (any pop3 client) and sorts your
email into "buckets" depending on what it contains. You set up buckets
of your choice, and tell it which emails go where - within a few hours
it's very accurate. You can set it to add a line to the headers or a
word to the subject so that you can then sort your mail as it comes
into Outlook, perhaps putting anything that Popfile marks as spam into
a separate folder which you can glance at occasionally to check

POPfile is good, but if you are using Outlook (not express) you might try
Outclass which is a POPfile plugin for Outlook. Also be warned that
POPFILE actually scans the whole message not just the subject lines to
make its decision.

I think it's popfile.org but I could be wrong,

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

 

[GlintingHedgehog]

POPfile is good, but if you are using Outlook (not express) you might try
Outclass which is a POPfile plugin for Outlook.

I'm not using Outlook or OE. Too much sense ;-)

Also be warned that POPFILE actually scans the whole message not just
the subject lines to make its decision.

Why would that be a problem? Since Popfile resides on your own computer -
not a remote server - I can't see how it's an issue; in fact it seems to me
that would improve accuracy.

 

[Aaron]

I'm not using Outlook or OE. Too much sense ;-)


Why would that be a problem? Since Popfile resides on your own
computer - not a remote server - I can't see how it's an issue; in
fact it seems to me that would improve accuracy.

Becuase the OP was talking about eyeballing subject lines (and probably
headers), I thought it was fair to mention that POPFile was not of that
type.

Filters of that type would use only Open relay blacklists like spampal
(excluding bayesian module) or mailwasher (old freeware version exists).

 

[Guest]

SpamBeyes is an Outlook plug-in. After a short period of 'training' it
reliably flags >95% of spam with very few false positives.
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html#outlook

Hope this helps

 

[S.C.]

SpamBeyes is an Outlook plug-in. After a short period of 'training' it
reliably flags >95% of spam with very few false positives.
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html#outlook

Yep I have been using Spambayes for a few months now and I haven't had
any false positives for about a month now. Once you have trained it it
works like a dream.