Scoobychick

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I'm fed up with wasting time having to wade through countless junk emails every day in my business inbox so want to block them before they arrive in the junk folder. I'm using the basic junk settings that Outlook comes with but they don't stop the crap from arriving in the first place and genuine emails often seem to end up in the junk folder and vice versa.

What's a good programme for blocking obvious spam?

Iain Young

I use Cloudmark antispam (Cloudmark - Anti Spam and Spam Blocker Solutions) with Outlook on my machine. It seems to catch 99% of all spam messages (I get over a hundred every day), and I've never known it to incorrectly identify something as spam when it isn't.

dsmith

Spambayes works wonders for me.

After a couple of weeks its was up to about 99% success rate for me

For home last month I had 1 spam get through to inbox - and 1 marked "potential spam" in error over about 4000 Messages (a fair few mailing lists).

john_s

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Another Spambayes user here

John.

Scoobychick

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Thanks chaps, I've downloaded Spambayes (no offence Iain - it was free! ) so will see how I get on

Mick

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I use mailwasher - also free

Mailwasher Anti Spam Software: The Reliable Free Spam Blocker

Mick

ScoobyDoo555

SpamBayes

RussBoy

Spambully for me - damned good!


Russ

jono300

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Just wonder where you d/loaded it from mate ?? easy enough to set up ??

Scoobychick

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I got it from the downloads page here. I'm a complete numptie when it comes to software but even I managed to install it and set it up ok Today is the second day of 'training' and it's already placing most junk into the junk folder. I'm very pleased with it so far

jono300

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Thanks for that much appreciatted.

anyone tell me how these junk filters work ?? is there certain words in the headers that they consider to be possible spam or what ??

stevencotton

Bayesian filters "learn" by going through your inbox then flagging things that don't seem to conform to the usual kind of mail you get, so it's nice and personal.