Spam filters

[Cadaver]

I'm interested in purchasing an email spam filter... I get way too much junk.
A friend has McAfee Spamkiller and it seems to work pretty well actually, and it's reasonably priced ($19.95 I think for the downloadable version).

Does anyone have any experience with others? Which do you like?

 

[Nohr]

MailWasher is what I use, works great. There's a free version but your limited to only one email account and no hotmail support. It's $30 to buy.

 

[MrBond]

I tried mailwasher on my 35 spam emails this morning. It only flagged like 10 emails as spam. Does it learn like SpamAssassin does?

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: MrBond
I tried mailwasher on my 35 spam emails this morning. It only flagged like 10 emails as spam. Does it learn like SpamAssassin does?

If I recall it connects to spam blacklist servers and uses the listings to flag spam, I don't know if it learns. I don't even use that feature though, I simply use it's blacklist and filters to get rid of the crap. I also tell it to hide blacklisted mail from the list so I don't even have to see it, love that.

In the options you can set Heuristic Strength:
None - Will not try to automatcially mark messages based on their headers or content.
Careful - Only automatically mark messages which strongly resemble spam for bounce and delete.
Strong - Automatically mark all messages which resemble spam for bounce and delete.

Then there's also the blacklist servers on top of that. I haven't used any similar programs so I can't really compare, but it does what I ask of it.

 

[MrBond]

My ISP uses blacklists, both that mailwasher uses as default and about 4 more.

I tried SA Proxy (Spamassassin for win32 basicly) and it works well, but it's giving me problems now.