Bobby Heid
bheid at appdevgrp.com
Tue Mar 7 09:33:46 CST 2006
I did not see this make it to the list. Sorry if it is a repeat. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: Bobby Heid [mailto:bheid at appdevgrp.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:33 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Spam, spam, spam, spam .... Andy, I use Outlook and Spambayes. http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/index.html There is an add-in for Outlook, but it looks like they can install a proxy between the POP3 server and an email client (such as Outlook Express). >From their site: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/windows.html Non Outlook Solutions Windows users using other mail clients and retrieving mail via POP3 can download the same installation program and use it to install a binary version of sb_server, including a tray application. See also the information about sb_server. If you retrieve mail via IMAP, you currently need to install a recent version of Python and the SpamBayes source, then setup the IMAP filter) for your mail server. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 1:09 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Spam, spam, spam, spam .... 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? -- Andy Lacey http://www.minstersystems.co.uk _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com