spam proggy help

[sabret00the]

i need help to find a spam protection program, i found one a while back and seem to have lost it, it was a plugin for Outlook and used to define spam using keywords which it would update every so often from a central server.

really need to find it again as the spam on my yahoo account is getting outta hand :(

[Zachery]

i think its called spam assassin :)

[sabret00the]

aint spam assassin server side?

[Zachery]

it can be used for either.

if you install it on your host and set the ip to 127.0.0.1 ive been told it functions the same

[sabret00the]

not the type of thing i'm after, the one i'm after had a little exe, made it's own little menu bar and you could click a button if it let some spam through or another button if it classed something as spam it shouldn't, it also set up a spam folder in your outlook

[WildWayz]

"Watch Your Back" was it?

[Ksilebo]

Cloudmark SpamNet?

[jw791]

not the type of thing i'm after, the one i'm after had a little exe, made it's own little menu bar and you could click a button if it let some spam through or another button if it classed something as spam it shouldn't, it also set up a spam folder in your outlook

SpamBayes perhaps?

http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/spambayes/

[WizyWyg]

SpamPal

http://www.spampal.org

[sabret00the]

nope that wasn't it but i'll be sure to look into it :)

[sabret00the]

spampal looks to be the most similar to what i want, except it doesn't plug into Outlook very well :(

[sabret00the]

no more suggestions?

[buro9]

I use two:

Spam Assassin ( http://www.spamassassin.org/index.html ) on the server to remove the most blatant stuff and prevent my downloading it. I also have it stop all Windows executables here and nuke them.

POPFile ( http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ ) on my desktop, which uses a Bayesian filter trained by myself to remove the more borderline and ambiguous spam.

Spam Assassin removes around 60% of the spam before it arrives, and as my hit rates are kept high doesn't perform any false negatives.

POPFile removes the remaining spam... I've been using it for around 1 year, but it was about 3 months after use that its hit rate crept up to 99.8% accuracy. Simply put... there are very few false negatives, and even those are easy to catch.

POPFile can re-write the subject, or you can add a header for the classification and if you use a decent mail program you can filter on the headers (so the mail is never tampered with)... I use The Bat as e-mail client, but Thunderbird, Pegasus and Eudora all do header filters too I believe.

[Brandon]

My mom uses one called Spam Inspector, I think this is what youre referring to :)

http://www.giantcompany.com/(zc12pi55dh2s4y45cba5hgy4)/default.aspx?PID=advbn01