TSGL: Spam Filter Recomendations

[H Davis]

You might be able to redirect those other accounts to your gmail 
account. This is what I did after running up against my ISP's ridiculous 
10MB total limit too many times. Your local client should have enough 
filtering ability to sort the incoming mixture into separate folders if 
you wished.

You're right about gmail's spam filter - I don't see more than 1 piece 
of spam a week. It even catches those "all image" e-mails. The ones that 
sneak through are the ones that look like a short message you might send 
a friend.

The fact that it keeps everything (incoming and outgoing) is a great 
backup which I value, so that's just icing on the cake for me.

Some of the other discussion about K9 etc seemed to imply that the users 
stopped training the filter and expected it to perform well after that. 
(If I read the comments correctly). If the nature of the spam didn't 
change this would work but it does and it won't. You have to continue to 
correct the filter when it makes a mistake or it won't learn. It's a 
never ending job which is why I gave up on Tbird's spam filter and let 
Google do the work. I've had to do almost no training of the gmail 
filter, just a couple of things it miscatagorized as spam.

Good luck with your search.

H Davis

David Goldstein wrote:
> I use Gmail for some things but I also have a few very long standing POP
> email addresses that I'd rather not change which I'd have to do in order to
> use their spam filter.  The Gmail spam filter is excellent, by the way.
>
> - Dave
>
> On 12/4/06, H Davis <hdavis1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> David,
>>
>> What about gmail? It's free, you can access it with many e-mail clients,
>> you won't see any ads if you access it via POP, it has a great spam
>> filter plus you can set your own special filters, it keeps all your
>> e-mails, incoming and outgoing (if you use it as your outgoing server)
>> as a backup.
>>
>> You really never have to visit the gmail web page except about once a
>> month to check your spam to see if it captured anything worthwhile.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> H Davis
>>
>> Gene Brown wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday, December 4, 2006, 9:28:05 AM, David wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I've Been using Norton AntiSpam the last few years and have grown tired
>>>>         
>> of
>>     
>>>> it.  Can anyone recommend a replacement?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I've been using K9 for a couple of years and have been very happy
>>> with it.  You can get it at http://keir.net.  It's free, so there's
>>> nothing lost in giving it a try.  It takes a few days (or a few
>>> weeks, depending on your volume) to learn your spam patterns, but
>>> for me it's identified over 90 percent of the spam with no false
>>> positives.  YMMV, but it's been good for me and I see no reason to
>>> change.
>>>
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