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See SpamAssassin.org - they also have some references to filtering (milter) options.
Best of luck,
Max
However, at the minute I am having some trouble. My work colleagues are getting messages saying that their email is not being passed on due to spam, however, in the last hour I have deleted a nigerian wanting to give me money, 2 people selling me viagra and a dial-a-prank email. I think I have it set on backwards somewhere :)
Chris
To this day I have not received another piece of spam. As for personal letters that might be filtered, well people can get hold of me other than on my PC........I hope;-)
What I want to know is when are ISP going to allow you to block generic things like block all domains and/or email addresses that contain numbers etc..? That would cut down on a lot of the crap.
At the rate the whole thing is going though the only way that it's going to be stopped is if it actually costs money to send each email.
LOL. This is the exact reason I'm scared to try one. I've seen so much spam come in with such screwed up Subjects and Froms that it's obvious they're trying to beat the spam filters. And then I'm afraid that I might filter out legitimate email from clients who simply trigger the filter by accident.
...and then look through some of the great threads [webmasterworld.com] we've had here about it...
You can designate senders as blacklist or friend and all blacklisted messages in the future will be automatically set up with delete and bounce as a default. When you have checked all messages sitting at your email service provider to be sure they are correctly identified, then you click on process and those to be deleted and bounced are processed. You are then left with the rest that can be passed through to your own email program, Outlook in my case.
I have a last remaining problem. The MailWasher filters only operate on text messages. I would like to filter out all HTML messages which would be initially classified as blacklisted. I would then scrutinize the list and mark those I wish to receive as Friends.
Does anyone have a good solution for filtering out HTML messages with offensive content.
Barry Welford
When you bounce mail, Does that really stop any more mail from that sender?That's debatable. I suggest using it sparingly. A lot of the stuff from Yahoo or Hotmail accounts is forged anyway so it won't do much good for those...sometimes it just feels good to bounce.
Apart from the bounce facility, what advantage is there in deleting emails on Mailwasher as opposed to setting up filters in Outlook and deleting them from there?Once you've allowed Outlook to download the mail the damage is done in most cases. Mailwasher lets you delete and bounce from the server before it gets to your PC.
Am I right in thinking that you still have to delete manually as there isn't a facility for deleting and bouncing automatically?You just process the messages through your filters. Those which don't pass can be deleted by Mailwasher.
The MailWasher filters only operate on text messages.Not true. You can filter out HTML the same way you filter text. Check out these filters suggested by Mailwasher [w5hq.com].
Dave.
My partner and I get approx 400 spams/day to our main addresses which have been around online business for the last 4 years. Method in above post is currently catching over 99% of spam, better than the 90-95% success I've had with techniques mentioned in this thread.
SpamCop Blacklist bl.spamcop.net
SPEWS level 1 spews.relays.osirusoft.com
Osirusoft open relay inputs inputs.relays.osirusoft.com
ORDB open relays relays.ordb.org
Spamhaus Blacklist spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com
South Korea korea.services.net
Osirusoft Open Proxies socks.relays.osirusoft.com
monkeys.com open proxies proxies.relays.monkeys.com
China cn.rbl.cluecentral.net
Nigeria nigeria.blackholes.us
Argentina argentina.blackholes.us
Brazil brazil.blackholes.us
And SpamAssassin Limit 8
It costs $30 a year and I would still use it if it cost ten times as much.
