Anti-Spam software Recommendations

Hen_Dawg · 31 Jul 2007 at 21:11

My folks keep complaining about all the spam they are getting and I'm looking into some software to try and block some. Their ISP Pipex have been a bit helpful but I'm asking for some recommendations for software, free or paid for, which can fight spam coming into their Thunderbird mailbox.

Any ideas? Thanks

modo77 · 31 Jul 2007 at 21:31

http://www.mailwasher.net/ is decent

MarcLister · 31 Jul 2007 at 21:32

http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
http://www.spamihilator.com/
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
http://mailfilter.sourceforge.net/

All from http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-open-source-software/index.html, communication section.

Hen_Dawg · 31 Jul 2007 at 22:04

Cheers to you both, I'll look into these ones

MarcLister · 31 Jul 2007 at 22:05

What email provider is their email addy with? Just thinking a Gmail one is pretty decent for spam when you run it through Thunderbird. I only ever see the spam that Gmail has detected when I login through the website.

Hen_Dawg · 1 Aug 2007 at 13:39

They're with Pipex and have they're email from them.
I've considered recommending the Gmail system but they've had their address for years and don't want to change unless they have to. I.e. when leaving those losers Pipex.

I'm gonna install Mailwasher and see if it helps at all. 7 million users they claim.

MarcLister · 1 Aug 2007 at 14:24

Could you not get their Pipex email to be redirected to their Gmail one? So someone emails them on their Pipex account but it gets redirected to their Gmail one. Might help the spam situation then if the email goes through Gmail's filters and they get to keep their Pipex addy.

Hen_Dawg · 1 Aug 2007 at 15:31

Nice idea there! Cheers

I guess it's simple enough to redirect to another account.

MarcLister · 1 Aug 2007 at 16:38

No probs. Let us know when you've set it up and if it works.

buachille · 9 Aug 2007 at 23:10

cloudmark desktop. i can't believe nobody else recommended it. you will still download the mails but they will transferred straight to a spam folder (or deleted mails if you prefer).

or you could tell them to buy their own domain (will cost about 6 pound for a co.uk, and buy some webspace with a cpanel enabled server (not expensive), and activate spam assassin.