good spam filter?

[Budd]

i need a good spam filter for outlook express. at home i use Cloudmark for Outlook, but it doesn't work for Outlook Express. this will be for my parents and a few cousins so it would help if it was pretty simple to use. any suggestions?

[emr]

Originally posted by Buddy Holly
i need a good spam filter for outlook express. at home i use Cloudmark for Outlook, but it doesn't work for Outlook Express. this will be for my parents and a few cousins so it would help if it was pretty simple to use. any suggestions?

Bummer, I use Cloudmark too, they keep saying they will release a version for OE but it never arrives.

[Archer]

Try Mail Washer Pro trial its a fairly good mail interception device,still has a few niggly things that need recoding to me but give it a go and see what you think.

[kato2274]

popfile
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/
POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.

it's very cool

[Gollo]

Originally posted by kato2274
popfile
http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/
POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.

it's very cool

Ya beat me to it kato!! I've been running it for a couple of months now and have only had a few classification errors. I think I'm at close to 99% accuarcy.

[kato2274]

Originally posted by Gollo
Ya beat me to it kato!! I've been running it for a couple of months now and have only had a few classification errors. I think I'm at close to 99% accuarcy.

yeah me too. I love it. I'm through the testing phase so now alll my family is going to learn to use it too!

[InvisiBill]

FYI, Mozilla's mail client now has a Bayesian filter built-in (what POPfile uses).

SpamAssassin is the best I've found so far. It's made to run on Linux though, and I haven't found a real good way of using it on Windows yet. There is a special mail proxy program made for Windows... Deersoft used to make SpamAssassin Pro for Windows, but McAfee bought them out. I'm not sure where that's going...

Anyway, SpamAssassin has its own tests that it checks against ("viagra", "mortgages", "earn cash fast", etc.). It also now has a Bayesian filter built-in as well, and auto-adds the mail it catches with other rules (i.e. it teaches itself). It can also access other spam filters, like Razor/Cloudmark's network. SA seems to be all the good spamfilters combined...

I use Mailwasher Pro as well. However, Mozilla's built-in filtering seems to be doing a better job and most attempts to bounce the mail fail or go to a fake address anyway, so now it's basically just an email notification program for me.

[nick6789]

I've been pretty happy with Spam Bully http://www.spambully.com/ It works with Outlook and Outlook Express