[dba-Tech] Spam, spam, spam, spam ....

On 6 Mar 2006 at 18:09, Andy Lacey wrote:

> Hi all
> A mate has asked my advice, so I'm bringing the question to
> they-who-know-everything (ie you lot). Can anyone suggest good, free,
> spam-blocking software, compatible with Outlook Express, that uses
> techniques more sophisticated than putting rules in Outlook looking for
> specific words. An example he gave me is an email received recently with no
> Subject and just an image in the Body, oh and one of those sent-by's which
> changes all the time. Is there anything out there which could detect that as
> spam? At work our ISP uses heuristics to spot heavy traffic coming from a
> certain source and flags it up tht way, but I'd guess that that's always a
> paid-for service. What do you all think?
> 

You don't want "spam blocking" software. You want software which classifies 
and tags email so that you can apply simple rules in your email client to 
separate, filter  and possibly delete spam.  There's a subtle difference.

There are a couple of excellent freeware "bayesian filter" programs to do 
this.

Best one is POPFile.  http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

Another good one which is simple to set up is K9. http://keir.net/k9.html

-- 
Stuart