12LEE

Any recommendations for spam filtering software?

judgejules

SpamAssassin

Can take a little setting up, but it v.neat.

~Jules

rik1471

Get Outlook 2003, built in Junk Mail Filtering.

stevencotton

Spam Assassin will make Outlook's spam protection look like a baby's toy. Outlook is bloat and virus authors assume victims will be using it, because they usually are

jbryant

That SpamAssassin looks scary, and doesn't seem suitable for a novice in any way shape or form.

If you're a single user on Outlook Express, take a peek at www.cloudmark.com at the beta they're currently running. It works well on my system, taking out about 95% of the 30 or so spams I get a day with no false positives in the last week which is definitely a good thing. Beta seems a little flaky but worthwhile perservering.

Joolz

ajm

I have implemented spamassassin on my domain. It is called from a perl script via qmail using the Mail::Audit and Spam::Assassin modules with some other custom filtering.

here's a snippet from the logs....

[14/11/2003 22:44] Rejected (Bad To: Address) -> From:"Marina Carroll" <m_carrollon@yahoo.co.uk> Subject:=?ISO-8859-1?b?QWRkIGxlbmd0aCB0byB5b3VyI...
[14/11/2003 22:45] Rejected (Bad To: Address) -> From:"Stacey Grimm" <d92tre@yahoo.com> Subject:SUPER VIAGRA IS HERE! dpudiwwf jxw
[14/11/2003 22:45] Rejected (Caught by SpamAssassin) -> From:"Rosario N. Carver" <carvernw@yahoo.co.uk> Subject:=?iso-8859-1?B?Tm8gcGlsbHMsIG5vIHB1bXBzI...
[14/11/2003 22:47] Rejected (Bad To: Address) -> From:"Orville J. Spence" <orville.spence_kw@dthomas.co.uk> Subject:=?ISO-8859-1?B?SG93IHdhcyBpdCA=?=lately?
[14/11/2003 22:47] Rejected (Caught by SpamAssassin) -> From:"Jean Spencer" <j.spencerwh@yahoo.com> Subject:=?ISO-8859-1?b?eW91IGhhdmUgdG8gdHJ5IGl0I...
[14/11/2003 22:49] Rejected (Bad To: Address) -> From:"Vern Stapleton" <cmtehasrt@earthlink.net> Subject:FWD: Invitation j mbm saaj
[14/11/2003 22:52] Rejected (Caught by SpamAssassin) -> From:"Norma Hopkins" <nhopkinssx@mail.com> Subject:=?ISO-8859-1?b?VGhlIFBlbmlzIEVubGFyZ2VtZ...
[14/11/2003 22:54] Rejected (Bad To: Address) -> From:Sophia <sophia@juno.com> Subject:Babs, did you see that ?
[14/11/2003 22:59] Rejected (Bad To: Address) -> From:Revisits <revisits@address.com> Subject:E-xclusiv-e HQ co-l-l-ections of g-a=y t...
[14/11/2003 23:02] Rejected (Caught by SpamAssassin) -> From:"Cherry D. Butler" <cbutleryo@mywankers.com> Subject:Let's kiss


You can see the amount its filtering out (checkout the frequency of the mail!), the odd one still sneaks through though....

[Edited by ajm - 11/14/2003 11:11:12 PM]

paulr

I installed SAproxy about a month ago.Hardly any setting up,cuts down spam no end.
You can try it out first

here