[Yaryman]

OT - Anybody here have a good spam blocker or just an effective way to
create an enemies list?

I'm using Outlook 2000 for my email.

PS - If you suggest a spam blocker and I use it, It will be added to the 1st quarter "productivity gains".

[Darkdoc]

Yaryman, on Mar 27 2004, 11:29 AM, said:

OT - Anybody here have a good spam blocker or just an effective way to
create an enemies list?

I'm using Outlook 2000 for my email.

PS - If you suggest a spam blocker and I use it, It will be added to the 1st quarter "productivity gains".

I've been using Spam Inspector for the last two months, and so far it is working very well. Very flexible and adaptable. Catches everything as it learns, with few errors that you can correct easily. Includes an enemies list.

No more penis enlargement ads.

It has a two week free trial. $10.00 discount until the end of the month. (I have no financial interest. )

Spam Inspector

[Captain's Log]

beardrech, on Mar 27 2004, 10:39 PM, said:

Yaryman,Mar 27 2004, 11:29 AM] OT - Anybody here have a good spam blocker or just an effective way to
create an enemies list?

I'm using Outlook 2000 for my email.

PS - If you suggest a spam blocker and I use it, It will be added to the 1st quarter "productivity gains".

Yaryman : This is the wrong forum but nvertheless, I recently enrolled to QURB to tackle my spam. My problem results from having a web based WIP project that I intend to take to being a business. Since I put a prototype up for release with email contacts, I get ~ 380 or so junk mails per day which kills my mailbox limit. (It is geeting worse per week). Unbelievable how much crude I get to 4 addresses. I am lucky to get 5 genuine emails to my genuine home email account.

QUIB is a plug in to outlook. It is not ideal (Best being I don't get the Marthafecking Spam in the 1st place) but helps in my secondary problem of my my 10MB email box gets blocked.

All Spam goes to a local quarantine area. You get to browse through it for accepting adresses / people subjects/ but if it is a known person in your address list t allows them through. I think there's something in there about automatically sending request to senders and if they acknowledge, then it gets ok'd as legit but I've not read up about it.

I detest SPAMMERS

[Yaryman]

For the record I tried the spam blocker (spam inspector) darkdoc suggested before he suggested it.
It just came up first in the google search, and it has a free trial, so I tried it.

That said, it seems to do what I want it to.
That being, create a list of "enemies" and block them.

Maybe I'm just not smart enough to figure out how to do that in Outlook 2000, or the Outlook 2000 spam blocker code features suck.

It must be me, I know Microsoft uses all those monopoly profits to innovate new and better products. At least that what they tell us.

[Stocky]

Yaryman, on Mar 28 2004, 10:54 AM, said:

For the record I tried the spam blocker (spam inspector) darkdoc suggested before he suggested it.
It just came up first in the google search, and it has a free trial, so I tried it.

A lot of spam programs that use white lists and black lists can cause you to miss an important e-mail because they have a tendancy to block the good (or important message) with the bad. I use a program called POPFile that instead of blocking messages it classifies them according to my criteria. This program is not for the faint of heart (technically limited) but it's the best e-mail classification tool I have found and it's FREE. It was programed in Perl which is one of the best web programming languages out there for text. It installs between your e-mail program and your mail server and parses each incoming message and classifies it according to your criteria. The flow diagram would be OE --> POPFile --> ISP mail.

From their website under FAQ's POPFile
"POPFile classifies email into categories you define. It can sort into spam and not spam or into any number of categories you like (e.g. work, personal, important project, hobby, etc.).

The classification is done using a naïve Bayes algorithm. In other words, POPFile uses statistics to track which words are likely to appear in which messages. This means that POPFile will adapt to the kind of mail you receive and needs to be trained. Out of the box, it doesn't know anything about spam or how messages from your mother differ from those your friends send you. However, if you train it, it will soon learn how to tell these different kinds of messages apart."

I have only set up 3 classifications (what they call buckets), you can use as many as you need, mine are Good, News and Spam. I have it set up where POPFile looks at each incoming message and places one of these words (you can name it anything you want) in the subject line of the message.



The above picture is from my Deleted items folder in Outlook Express (POPFile works with Outlook and numerous other e-mail programs). The messages classified as [spam] were already placed in my Deleted items folder by setting up some simple OE filtering rules. I then added a folder called News. This is a very simple setup compared to what this program is capable of doing.





Since I didn't set up a rule for the messages classified as [good] they automatically went into my Inbox.

When checking my mail I quickly browse thru my Deleted items to make sure a good message didn't get put in there and then right click and delete all. If a good message is classified as spam you simply right click on their icon in the system tray and bring up their UI to reclassify it. This way you never miss a good message. After 1 year of use I only have to reclassify 1 out of 100 messages, it works that good. POPFile uses a HTML or browser UI (user interface). Click to expand image below.

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Their newest version is .21.1 and I'm using version .19 and haven't updated yet because it's doing such a good job I haven't felt the need to. Here are my current statistics after 11,543 messages, as you can see 99.16% accuracy. Click to expand image below.

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The reason there is so much spam is that I have OE set up to not only check my ISP mail but also my Hotmail and Yahoo messages which get a lot of spam.
I use MrPostman along with POPFile for this MrPostman

The flow diagram would be OE --> POPFile --> MrPostman --> Hotmail or Yahoo mail.

They are making POPFile easier to install with each new version but if you feel it's beyond your computer skills, ask a techy friend to help. I think you will be as pleased as I am because spam has changed a lot over the last year and will continue to change and POPFile has continued to nail the changes with very little retraining.

[tandr]

take a look at SpamPal. Not easiest, but works ok (and free)