What's the name of that anti-spam software? ....

Aliboy · 7 Feb 2006 at 20:32

..... that learns what kind of mail is spam and what isn't? Recently, I've been getting bombarded with spam mails about mortgages etc and it's really doing my head in :mad:

The thing is, they all have spelling mistakes in the subject line and I can't be arsed typing in a new filter everytime a new typo comes along. I know that there is a piece of software out there that has a sort of learning filter built into it that can delete mail straight away if it has these spammy type of typo's. Does anyone know what it's called? For some reason I have a picture of a German Shepherd dog in my head

NathanE · 7 Feb 2006 at 20:34

The keyword for Google is "bayesian"

Monstermunch · 7 Feb 2006 at 20:45

Aliboy said:
..... that learns what kind of mail is spam and what isn't? Recently, I've been getting bombarded with spam mails about mortgages etc and it's really doing my head in The thing is, they all have spelling mistakes in the subject line and I can't be arsed typing in a new filter everytime a new typo comes along. I know that there is a piece of software out there that has a sort of learning filter built into it that can delete mail straight away if it has these spammy type of typo's. Does anyone know what it's called? For some reason I have a picture of a German Shepherd dog in my head

What are you using, Outlook Express, Outlook 2000 or Outlook 2003.

If you're not using it then get Outlook 2003 it has great built in spam filters.

Andre · 8 Feb 2006 at 07:23

Are you on about PopFile? filters and tags all incoming emails

AJUK · 8 Feb 2006 at 08:19

nade · 8 Feb 2006 at 13:22

Andre said:
Are you on about PopFile? filters and tags all incoming emails

I'd also recommend this....providing your mail client allows for "Rules" to check contents/subject/etc on incoming email.

Aliboy · 9 Feb 2006 at 08:40

Sorry for the slow response peeps. I am using Thunderbird at the minute but I have come to dislike that proggy. I thought it was okay at first but now I'd rather use something else. K9 was the software that I was originally thinking about (thanks AJUK) but I might have a look at the others mentioned. In the meanwhile I think I'll just have to switch back to using outlook 03

If anyone knows of any other proggys that they have either tried or are using at the moment (and you're impressed by it) feel free to post here to let me know.

Thanks again peeps

tolien · 9 Feb 2006 at 13:38

Spamassassin. But it's server side.

basmic · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:03

I use Mailwasher and Pegasus Mail.

Aliboy · 9 Feb 2006 at 23:38

I've reverted back to ms outlook 2003

I forgot all about the filters that it had in place about blocking emails from certain countries. A little bit of tweaking here and there and I should be sorted .... I think