Hi All:

Are there any free programs that greatly reduces spam into my inbox for
Outlook Express?

I thought I read about one but then lost the site.

Please don't suggest email rules, they still get by me and I use them

tks all

bill

Do a Google. There are many. K9, SpamPal, Mailwasher, (don't use the bounce
feature).

If you never enter your address at an untrustworthy Website, or in a
newsgroup, (which I see you haven't, at least now), you won't get any Spam.

I got a new address after my son used my computer and entered my address at
many sites, causing a lot of Spam.

I have had this address for over a year and one half, and have yet to
receive one Spam e-mail.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"bill" <bw1945@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> Are there any free programs that greatly reduces spam into my inbox for
> Outlook Express?
>
> I thought I read about one but then lost the site.
>
> Please don't suggest email rules, they still get by me and I use them
>
> tks all
>
> bill
>

Here is the download website for MailWasher (Free) which is a great spam
program and easy to use. Works fine with OE.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mailwasher.html


"bill" <bw1945@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All:
>
> Are there any free programs that greatly reduces spam into my inbox for
> Outlook Express?
>
> I thought I read about one but then lost the site.
>
> Please don't suggest email rules, they still get by me and I use them
>
> tks all
>
> bill
>

tks Bruce, I've used same emial adress now for 7 yrs and now and then it
gets to wrong hands and now I get the spam. I am vrey careful about giving
it out, so am trying the Mailwasher program.

tks again


bill
"Bruce Hagen" <Nospam@mymail.invalid> wrote in message
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> Do a Google. There are many. K9, SpamPal, Mailwasher, (don't use the
> bounce feature).
>
> If you never enter your address at an untrustworthy Website, or in a
> newsgroup, (which I see you haven't, at least now), you won't get any
> Spam.
>
> I got a new address after my son used my computer and entered my address
> at many sites, causing a lot of Spam.
>
> I have had this address for over a year and one half, and have yet to
> receive one Spam e-mail.
> --
> Bruce Hagen
> MS MVP - Outlook Express
> ~IB-CA~
>
> "bill" <bw1945@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:%237JPWZv8FHA.1020@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Hi All:
>>
>> Are there any free programs that greatly reduces spam into my inbox for
>> Outlook Express?
>>
>> I thought I read about one but then lost the site.
>>
>> Please don't suggest email rules, they still get by me and I use them
>>
>> tks all
>>
>> bill
>>
>

Do you use the paid pgm or free. Still a lot of steps involved with free
program, m I installed it. tks

bw
"ColTom2" <nomailaddress@none.com> wrote in message
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> Here is the download website for MailWasher (Free) which is a great spam
> program and easy to use. Works fine with OE.
> http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mailwasher.html
>
>
> "bill" <bw1945@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:%237JPWZv8FHA.1020@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Hi All:
>>
>> Are there any free programs that greatly reduces spam into my inbox for
>> Outlook Express?
>>
>> I thought I read about one but then lost the site.
>>
>> Please don't suggest email rules, they still get by me and I use them
>>
>> tks all
>>
>> bill
>>
>
>

"bill" <bw1945@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:%237JPWZv8FHA.1020@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Hi All:
>
> Are there any free programs that greatly reduces spam into my inbox for
> Outlook Express?
>
> I thought I read about one but then lost the site.
>
> Please don't suggest email rules, they still get by me and I use them
>
> tks all
>
> bill
>


SpamPal
- http://www.spampal.org
- It is free, from altruistic developers intent on thwarting spam.
- Not nagware, bannerware, trialware, or other crapware. Just freeware.
- Works on DNBLs (DNS blacklists) of known spam sources. Choose them wisely
as some aren't really spam-source blacklists but actually a spammy rating
scheme (like SPEWS). Start with just the following DNSBLs: SpamHaus SBL+XBL
(which includes the Composite Blocking List and blitzed.org lists), and ORDB
and NJABL (which are really lists of [misconfigured] open relays but which
spammers often abuse when they find them). SpamCop is considered a bit more
aggressive but I've had not false positives when using them. SORBS is also
more aggressive but mostly because they often don't update their records for
several months, so old IP addresses may no longer be used by a spam source
and could have been reassigned to a good user. Don't use SPEWS unless you
are prepared to handle lots of false positives. SPEWS ranks a domain
regarding its spamminess (which is mostly a historical measure than a
current evaluation). SPEWS does NOT specifically attempt to identify
particular spam sources on a domain. SpamBag shares many of the same views
and attributes as SPEWS, so expect false positives from them, too.
- Plenty of free plug-ins to add: Bayesian filtering, HTML modification and
scoring, logging a plain-text copy of spams (to provide a copy to use in
reporting spam or catch false positive in case you auto-delete any
spam-tagged mails), RegEx to provide far more powerful regular expressions
to detect spam, MX blocking (to detect if a message came from a host other
than a mailserver listed by that domain's nameserver), dynamic IP blocking
(to spam-tag any mails coming from mail servers from dynamic IP addresses,
like for DSL/cable/dial-up users since those are the infected hosts running
mailer trojans), and a few other plug-ins.
- Runs as a local proxy so any POP3/IMAP client can use it.
- Does NOTHING to any e-mail other than to add a tag that you decide in your
rules in your e-mail client as what to do with them.
- Supports POP3 and IMAP e-mail clients. Also provides an SMTP server so
you can send out your mails through SpamPal (but I prefer to send out using
my ISP's SMTP server).
- Does not support SSL (for secured connects - which only protects the login
credentials and NOT the body of your mails) but you can incorporate sTunnel
to provide secured logins. SSL only protects the login credentials
(username and password). If you want to protect the body of your e-mails,
look up "encryption" in the help included with your e-mail client.
- Has an active and responsive user community in their forums to ask
questions about setup, use, and spam filtering.
- Better than most commercial products due to multiple detection methods.

If you are looking for a one-method solution, there are products like
SpamBayes that only provide Bayesian scoring to detect spam. It operates as
an Outlook plug-in but, I believe, they will also operate as a local proxy,
like SpamPal, so you can use any POP3 client with SpamBayes. Note that all
Bayesian schemes require a learning period to determine which posts are spam
and which are non-spam (and you will have to make updates to note when the
Bayesian program wrongly scored a message as bad or good). Some Bayesian
programs provide an initial list of weighted words, like the one in Outlook
2003, but that list is based on a generalized experienced amongst lots of
users and not what YOU specially received. If you have a list of good and
bad mails, some Bayesian programs, like SpamPal, will let you import them to
preload your database to reduce or eliminate the learning period.

Mailwasher is sometimes mentioned. It is a mail monitor program that
includes use of DNSBLs. Although the DNSBLs are free and publicly
accessible, Mailwasher has a commercial version but they never donate to
these DNSBLs to help them survive. I think Mailwasher lets you auto-delete
spam-tagged mails but, as I recall from another thread, you have to dig for
the option. However, I don't know if it provides a plain-text copy of
rule-deleted messages so you can recover from false positives. I'm not sure
there is a free copy of Mailwasher anymore. Even when it was free, the free
version only supported a single account so it was worthless to anymore with
2, or more, accounts - unless you paid for their Pro version (which was the
point of them providing a crippled free version). Rather than help the
community to thwart spam, they wanted to make money off it. SpamPal makes
no money off spam. You can donate to their cause but donations are not
required to get or use it, to use the plug-ins, or to participate in the
support forums. Last I heard, SpamBayes was completely free, too, and not
crippleware to prod users into buying a Pro version.

If your e-mail provider permits you to define server-side rules, then move
any rules that you have in your local e-mail client to the server. That
way, those rules will always execute when the mail arrives rather than
waiting for you to run your local e-mail client (and some client-side rules
only work after you have downloaded the message whereas server-side rules to
delete spam result in you never wasting the time to download the spam).
Also, enable any server-side spam filtering option if provided by your
e-mail service. Might as well let them consume their CPU cycles detecting
the spam so you don't have to waste the mailbox quota and bandwidth to
download the crap. Occasionally check their bulk/junk/screened folder to
check for any false positives until you feel comfortable that they aren't
too aggressive in tagging mails as spam. Server-side spam filtering can
eliminate a huge chunk of the spam so your client-side solution has less to
download and handle.