Anti spam software

[anonymous-user]

I've recently moved from Norton AV to AVG for my anti virus needs.

The one thing that Norton did do very well was sifting the spam. I get about 200 emails a day some days because of my website, of which about 180 are spam. Norton anti spam used to just siphon those off and I could happily delete them without looking at them. With NAS now gone evrything is hitting my inbox.

Does anyone know of a good anti spam programme that works with outlook express?

Thanks

Paul

[FourWheelDrift]

Not sure if it's what you are after but I use Mailwasher, it reads the email on the email server without downloading it, you can chose what you download (simple text view, no pictures) block ones you don't want and even bounce spammers back, then download only what you want. Used with Spamcop it's highlights the spammers in red, ones it doesn't know in blue and friends in green as it learns your emails.

[JonRB]

I keep meaning to look at Mailwasher as it sounds very good. However, for the time being (ie. past few years! ) I've been using Cloudmark Desktop (formerly SafetyBar, formerly SpamNet), which installs as an Outlook (or Outlook Express) extension module and kills spam. Upside is that it is very simple and convenient. Downsides are that it requires a subscription and is also bound to your desktop, which means that when I use webmail from work I don't have any anti-spam capabilities. I suspect that Mailwasher running unattended as a scheduled task on my machine at home would be preferable, but I've never got round to investigating it.

>> Edited by JonRB on Thursday 17th November 11:30

[silverfox]

You might consider using a third party webmail provider like Yahoo or Gmail. These have spam filters that you can activate and the other mail you can download to OE as normal.

Redirect your emails through one of these providers and then you can login to Yahoo/Gmail and check and delete your spam folder contents when/if necessary.

That way you never see *most* of the spam.

[Pigeon]

This is excellent once it's trained (which doesn't take very long).

[anonymous-user]

silverfox said:

You might consider using a third party webmail provider like Yahoo or Gmail. These have spam filters that you can activate and the other mail you can download to OE as normal. Redirect your emails through one of these providers and then you can login to Yahoo/Gmail and check and delete your spam folder contents when/if necessary. That way you never see *most* of the spam.

Thats what I've done. I don't know why I didnt think of it before. (D'OH). I already have 3 Yahoo addresses and the spam filter is excellent.

Cheers

Paul