Spam Blockers

[enat66]

I suggest Spampal for a free spam filter. Once you set it up Spampal scans your email as it comes in and checks to see if it thinks it is spam. If it finds a piece of spam it tags it with a "**Spam**" tag. You can set your email program to put all the messages with a **spam** tag in a different folder. In my experience it works great, even though it may take a few seconds for it to filter out the spam. I find it very effective.

http://www.spampal.org/


SpamPal sits between your email program and your mailbox, checking your email as you retrieve it. Any email messages that SpamPal considers to be spam will be "tagged" with a special header; you simply configure your email client to filter anything with this header into a separate folder and your spam won't be mixed up with the rest of your email anymore!

But how does SpamPal know what is spam and what isn't? Well, it uses what are called DNSBL lists. Patterned after the famous MAPS RBL (http://www.mail-abuse.org/rbl/), these are lists of parts of the Internet that in one way or another facilitate spam. Any email you get from a machine on one of these lists has an increased probability of being spam. Some ISPs already block all email from machines on some of these DNSBL lists, but many do not. This is where SpamPal comes in.

You can choose to use any or all of the freely-usable DNSBL lists; SpamPal will look at the machines each email message passed through on its way to your mailbox, and if any of those machines is on one of the DNSBL lists you have chosen then that message will be tagged as spam.

Because not everyone who uses a machine on a DNSBL list will be a spammer, SpamPal has a powerful whitelisting feature that allows you to ignore DNSBL listings for certain senders or for parts of the Internet.


http://www.spampal.org/

[AnnMarie]

The site seems to be down enat. Do you have an alternative link?

[renegade600]

seems almost as good as mailwasher.

[enat66]

The site works fine for me, but here is an alternate address:
http://www.spampal.us/

[AnnMarie]

Thanks enat. The original link is working for me now too.

[lufbra]

I've been using this e-mail "spam defender" for a few days, I consider it to be on a par with Mailwasher, in fact, it may even be a little better in as much that it allows you to set up as many e-mail accounts as you like, where as with Mailwasher, you can only do that with the "paid" set up. As far as I know, and after doing a few spyware/adware scans, the program is free of them critters, and it is pretty easy to set up. Unfortunately it doesn't work with AOL.

http://www.artplus.hr/adapps/eng/xterminator.htm

[keith.evans]

Hi,

I was going to ask if you are limited to one email account or can you run multiple accounts? Just found the answer...
http://www.photodump.com/direct/keithy397/ScreenShot002.jpg
Nice One! I'll have a shufty at this, thanks for the share.

Cheers.

(Enat's looked good too til I noticed it doesn't like what I use!)

[lufbra]

I thought I had mentioned the multiple e-mail accounts, by saying you can't do that with the free version of Mailwasher, but thanks for clarifying that. :)

There are also some filters to download, they are at the site, I just haven't had chance to try them.

[keith.evans]

Beg your pardon Lufbra, you did say it, I missed it.

[degsy]

Hope you learned your lesson Keith. Don't mess with the Chicken!!!

[keith.evans]

Fowl Temper?!

[lufbra]

Did you try it out, Keith? :)

[keith.evans]

Not yet, I have downloaded it though and had a look at it. When I get around to setting it up I think I'll be asking you a few questions, all these acronyms are doing my head in!!

[lufbra]

I've been using it for 10 days or so, it's a keeper, not as good as Mailwasher in as much as using the program, but for the price, I like it a lot, it sure lets you keep "bad" mails out of your mail program. :)

[renegade600]

I've been using this e-mail "spam defender" for a few days, I consider it to be on a par with Mailwasher, in fact, it may even be a little better in as much that it allows you to set up as many e-mail accounts as you like, one thing to consider with the free mailwasher, you forward all your pop3 accounts to to a single account then use that account for mailwasher.

[lufbra]

I guess you could do that, but it seems like a lot of work. :)

[renegade600]

I guess you could do that, but it seems like a lot of work. :)
not really, instead of setup all separate pop3 in mailwasher, you would setup all pop3 to go to one account and that one would be setup in mailwasher. The same amount of setup either way.

[lufbra]

How is that done? :)

[renegade600]

How is that done? :)
think about it, take yahoo pop3 has a feature to retrieve mail from other pop3 accounts. So does mail.com and many others. You setup pop3 in those accounts for all of your other pop3 just like you would in mailwasher. Then you would setup mailwasher to retrieve pop3 from yahoo.

[degsy]

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having multiple email accounts?

[renegade600]

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of having multiple email accounts?
Why would it? All your pop3 email accounts goes to the same place anyway. You just merging them into one email account instead of email client to run through mailwashers filter. And you can still keep the accounts separated with proper management.

[lufbra]

think about it, take yahoo pop3 has a feature to retrieve mail from other pop3 accounts. So does mail.com and many others. You setup pop3 in those accounts for all of your other pop3 just like you would in mailwasher. Then you would setup mailwasher to retrieve pop3 from yahoo.
Have you tried this? :)

[renegade600]

Have you tried this? :)
I have several accounts setup to go to yahoo. I have 2 gigs of storage :D with them - one gig more than gmail.

[lufbra]

Is that a "paid" service through Yahoo? :)

[eric6789]

You might want to give Spam Bully http://www.spambully.com/ a shot. We've used it my office for about a year and it's done pretty darn good.

[beta]

You might go looking for pst repair (http://www.oemailrecovery.com/pst-repair.html) and troubleshoot outlook express (http://www.mail-repair.com/email-repair.html). I have been using it without problem since it came out.