Spam Filter recommendations

[alf]

Anyone know a good one? I am testing out Cloudmark, which is working with 98% accuracy so far. Anything better out there?

[id10t]

The junk mail controls in Mozilla and Thunderbird work great for me...

[kang]

My solution to spam is to have (at least) two e-mail addresses. I give one out to family and friends and tell them never to use it on any web site, like those greeting card things. This is my clean e-mail. It hardly ever gets any spam. I have another that I use when I need to enter it on a web site, or when I order something off the web, etc. This is my “dirty” e-mail. It gets a lot of spam, but I only check it when I’m expecting an e-mail from something.

[Dottore]

Buy an Apple.

[greglepore]

Spambayes. Free, and it works.

[MBAtarga]

Spambayes works for me too!

[jyl]

Have you guys found a spam filter that catches the ads that are not text, but an image of text? Seems that somebody must make a spam filter that incorporates OCR or other pattern recognition.

Another thing I'd like to see is a spam filter that tracks what other users have tagged as spam. Spammers send millions of identical spams. By the time I see a spam, probably 10 million people have already seen, opened, and tossed it in the spam box. The software can safely assume it is spam.

[Joeaksa]

I use Pegasus for my email system. Lets me view my incoming emails on the internet before they ever get near my computer. They are deleted there and never make it to my home or on the road system. Deals with a lot of spam and virus's fast and painlessly.

Also use ATT for my ISP and their filters catch a lot of it. Like the gent above, I also use Yahoo for any business or person I am not familiar with. Get about 5,000 spam emails there every week and just delete the "bulk" mailbox without viewing it. If the person or company turns out to be valid then they are given my personal email address.

[azasadny]

Outlook 2003 at home works well for me and we use Exchange Server at work, plus McAfee and BrightMail products.

[rcecale]

Originally posted by kang
My solution to spam is to have (at least) two e-mail addresses. I give one out to family and friends and tell them never to use it on any web site, like those greeting card things. This is my clean e-mail. It hardly ever gets any spam. I have another that I use when I need to enter it on a web site, or when I order something off the web, etc. This is my “dirty” e-mail. It gets a lot of spam, but I only check it when I’m expecting an e-mail from something.

+1

Been doing this for years, way before spam got realy, REALLY huge. My "dirty" e-mail goes to a hotmail account that I've had since long before Microsoft bought them out.

Randy

[alf]

Thanks for the recommendations, i will give them all a shot. Well except for the Apple one, not sure how that would make a diff with Spam...or does it?