Which are the better spam filters?

Tired of deleting thousands of mails every day.

[vik_c]

Which are the better spam filters? I'm tired of dealing with thousands of mails with misleading subject lines. It's getting harder and harder to deal with this. I can't flag 'Hi!' and 'Thanks!' in a spam filter. Is there a solution?

[epfantasia]

Are you using an email client with a trainable Bayesian filter?

Thunderbird has pretty good spam detection / quarantine. In addition v1.5 can now spot potential "Scams" as well such as the all too common PayPal and eBay phishing emails.

If you want something server-side I would check out SpamAssassin.

[Lexur]

You can simply filter your mail through a gmail account: redirect all your mail to [e-mail] and then download it with another pop account.

Easy, efficient and cheap.

[lawman]

spambayes - and it's free.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

I agree! Spambayes is great.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

I get 10,000 to 40,000 SPAMs (delivery attempts) per day. Blocking servers with no IP reverse lookup and/or that appear in the (free) SPAMHAUS xbl-sbl list gets rid of all but a few tens of messages. No training required.

Rgds

Damon

[Solution1]

I use Spamihilator (since a couple of weeks), which has a plug-in system.

I use the DCC and the Blacklist filter plugins as the main filters.

The DCC checks how many other people have received the same e-mail. When that number is over an amount you set, the e-mail is blocked. I set mine to 60.

I let the Blacklist filter only use the Spamhaus list. Among the other lists that are preconfigured are some that give false positives in my situation, so I removed them.

Further I use plug-ins to block e-mails that are almost empty or contain only an image, and e-mails that contain an attachment with an extension that is likely a virus or trojan (.exe, .pif, etc).

My ISP has a spam filter on the POP server (Brightmail), but this Spamihilator configuration seems more effective.

[Added:]
Spamihilator has pre-installed filters for keywords and a filter which needs to be trained. I've turned those off.

[pmkpmk]

SpamAssassin plus a couple of Blacklists and the Razor feed.

[Woz]

I still use Mailwasher, preferring to delete the spam from the mail server before it even gets to my machine.

Onya
Woz

[TedM]

Try Qurb... works like a dream...

[graywolf]

I second thunderbird, just wished it exported and sync'd with other systems.

[pageoneresults]

Outlook 2003 along with Norton seems to be working very well. My mail server also sits behind a Barracuda Firewall which has been just incredible at taking out most of the trash.