Comments on: What's the best spam filter?

Question: What's the best spam filter?

specialk420 — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:07:44 -0800

spamfilter - whats the latest hot ticket... i've tried cloudmark - and liked it.. what else do people recommend these days?

By: riffola

riffola — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:18:09 -0800

I use Knowspam but frankly the development appears to have stalled, and popular requests by users ignored, to the point that the public feedback section was removed. My suggestion would be the find something else.

By: majick

majick — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:45:32 -0800

SpamAssassin combined with Exim ACLs remains my solution of choice.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:07:54 -0800

If you combine SpamAssassin with SpamHaus you'll really cut down on the spam.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:58:48 -0800

Much to my surprise, Opera's spamfilter has been doing a really great job. I have no idea how it works, but it's even beating out ol' POPFile.

By: LairBob

LairBob — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:37:22 -0800

SpamBayes has a great Outlook-integrated solution, if that's your e-mail client.

I've also used POPFile, which is more standalone--it runs as a proxy POP server, and you manage it through your browser--but also much more flexible, since it can not only learn to distinguish spam, but any number of classifications. I've got to say, though, that I've uninstalled and re-installed it 3 or 4 times now, and every time, after working for a while, it bombs out and stops working, so while I really like it, I can't seem to get it to work.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 06:07:36 -0800

spamassassin (inc local training), procmail filtering, reverse dns lookups for known bad guys. i see maybe one message a day. some details here (self link).

By: humuhumu

humuhumu — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:32:16 -0800

gmail. best spam filter i've come across.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:36:43 -0800

cool. thanks for tips people ... seems like this changes every couple months. i

By: maniactown

maniactown — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:11:58 -0800

I've been struggling with the best server-side option for many virtual hosting users (sendmail/linux). Anybody have some hints in that direction? I've been thinking of implementing a whitelist system, but have had a hell of a time finding a reasonable (free, as in beer) solution.