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Friday, March 19, 2004

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Spam is killing me

My personal e-mail account has just gotten hammered with spam. Not sure what to do anymore. I get about 30 messages a day that don't get filtered away, and I simply can't be bothered to figure out what is going on. I've been toying with the idea of using mailblocks or just switching to using hotmail for all my non-work e-mail.

Challenge/Response seems pretty compelling at this point since I'd rather shift the burden to people trying to send me mail. I get like 5 messages a week sent to my personal e-mail account, so there isn't much value add for me to deal with the spam.

Software

Posted Friday, March 19, 2004 Permalink Comments [4] View blog reactions

Friday, March 19, 2004 2:01:35 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

I use MailWasher (http://www.mailwasher.net/) to pre-screen my POP3 email and even bounce spam back to the sender. The Pro version ($30) is compatible with MSN/Hotmail.

Richard Tallent

Friday, March 19, 2004 4:59:03 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

Which spam filtering tool do you use? I get the same amount of spam you get. I use SpamBayes(http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/). It is very effective. It is very rare that spam makes it to my inbox these days.

Vazz

Friday, March 19, 2004 11:09:09 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)

I've had great success with popfile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/) for my POP3 accounts. It's a proxy, so it works with any POP3 client, including Outlook. I get about 300-400 spam messages a day and I don't even see 1 message a *week* that's mis-classified. It's taken me a bit of time to train it, but it was doing very well within days of first installing it (several versions ago).