Looking for a good spam filter

[Joxer]

I started by doing a search on here, but most of the results either had nothing to do with obtaining a spam filter, or were for other programs. With that said...

I use Outlook Express as my main e-mail client. I have my own domain that my e-mail gets sent to, and I have a spam filter on that. I also use the free SpamPal set to "Aggressive" (the highest setting) to flag any spam. However, I am STILL getting 100s of spam e-mails per day. So much so, that they are completely obscuring my normal e-mail...

Is there a free spam plugin for Outlook Express where I can highlight a bunch of e-mails, and flag them as spam?

Also, I know alot of spam reports back to it's originator that the e-mail has been read. Is there any way to block this? I currently use a modified HOSTS file (windows XP home) so about 80% of the e-mails I get can't connect to the pictures in them, but I would like to close off the connections so they can't report back.


Any suggestions?

[nomaan]

Originally Posted by Joxer

I started by doing a search on here, but most of the results either had nothing to do with obtaining a spam filter, or were for other programs. With that said...

I use Outlook Express as my main e-mail client. I have my own domain that my e-mail gets sent to, and I have a spam filter on that. I also use the free SpamPal set to "Aggressive" (the highest setting) to flag any spam. However, I am STILL getting 100s of spam e-mails per day. So much so, that they are completely obscuring my normal e-mail...

Is there a free spam plugin for Outlook Express where I can highlight a bunch of e-mails, and flag them as spam?

Also, I know alot of spam reports back to it's originator that the e-mail has been read. Is there any way to block this? I currently use a modified HOSTS file (windows XP home) so about 80% of the e-mails I get can't connect to the pictures in them, but I would like to close off the connections so they can't report back.


Any suggestions?

Does your antivirus solution have a anti-spam option? I'm using Kaspesrsky and it allows me to 'train' the spam filter with 50 spam msgs and then it takes over. If it misses something, you can mark it as spam with a button integrated into outlook.

Or how about getting a Gmail account, Importing all mails into it using pop3/IMAP, letting Gmail sort out the spam with its awesome filtering, and then getting outlook express to get mails from Gmail. WIth this, you can also send out emails from within gmail from your original account. It works really well.

[Nifty03]

Switch to Thunderbird and use its built in spam filter. Or do the Gmail thing and switch to Thunderbird for even more filtering.

[dx23]

Spambayes. It works like a charm.

[jonw9]

At my old job, I used to use mailwasher. I don't know if it is free anymore.

I think that was more of a manual type filter though. It had the option to bounce the email back to sender. It made me kind of happy to know I was sending their spam back.