Built in spam filters with email clients.

Which programs offer this feature?

[JeremyL]

Brett said that Mozilla 1.3 has built in spam filters for thier email program. Didn't want to take the thread off course so does anyone else know what other email programs come with spam filters bundled in? I tried running 3rd party software but it is a pain and wastes resources.

[hakre]

hi jeremyl,

you can install a spam software into your mta and then checkout the headers in your own client (many clients do support filtering based on message filters) to block spam. this is available for *nix mtas as far as i know.

try it here: spamassassin [spamassassin.org]

[Mardi_Gras]

Outlook Express will allow you to set filters and delete any matching e-mails from the server without ever downloading them - and without you ever seeing them. A really useful feature. Great for dumping mail with your name in the subject or teen, etc., without you ever knowing it existed. I use Outlook, which, if it has such a feature (deleting at server level) I have not been able to find it.

I had my wife set up on OE and was able to dramatically reduce the amount of spam she saw. For business reasons, I had to switch her to Outlook, and now she complains all the time about the volume of spam - so I guess those filters were really working.

Mailwasher really does work well once you get your friends list set up. It is a little clumsy during the day (using two programs to check mail :() but great for first thing in the morning checking where most of what has come in overnight is spam. Since it now checks Hotmail boxes I use it a lot more - most of my spam comes to my Hotmail account, and deleting it through Mailwasher is much easier than through Hotmail's interface.