I am a happy camper

I've been a bit doubtful of these Bayesian filtering spam things, but I got fed up of spam on my work mail so in exasperation tried SpamBayes, which is an open source filter that also has a version that works as an add-in for Outlook 2000 or better.

It's *perfect*.

It's free (as in speech and beer), and is spot on when it comes to doing the job. Training it was easy, as I had a handy supply of spam in deleted items, and a load of good mails and the thing has a wizard to sort it out for you.

So far today it has junked 48 emails spot on, and has not put anything that I want in the spam directory. It has ranked one mail as "possible spam", but it puts those messages in a different folder and gives you a handy button to recover the mail.

Best of all, it learns as it goes along , so it learns from its successes and failures.

Spammers don't stand a chance against this. All the wierd mumbo jumbo they put in there doesn't wrongfoot it.

I am bloody impressed . If you're suffering, try it!

Cheers,
nick.

 

URL please?

 

"D'oh"

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

Even had it on the clipboard ready to post, but forgot!

 

Cool . Was just trialling saproxy with a view to purchase ..

Steve

 

Cheers nick i was getting quite cheesed off with cloudmarks i'll give this a bash and see how it fairs against my spam

 

I'll give it a whirl

Mark

 

Just give it as many classified mails as you can, and you'll be gobsmacked. Hopefully

 

lol my deleted has currently got 5 days worth 700 plus mails

 

Goes without saying, but delete the stuff that isn't spam - ie remove the stuff that you've deleted but wasn't spam...

 

Software looks good, hopefully it'll filter out the 100+ a day spam I get lol

 

nick i think i've hit a problem i have no non spam there the only peeps that type to me

 

Well mine's installed - didn't like the windows installer, but it was no hassle to do the python / win32ext / source.

Just thrown a few 1000 messages at it to train

Steve