Need spam filter - suggestions?

[jonnyb]

I use Outlook and looking for an easy spam filter. I get so much spam that I don't have time to keep going thru them. It takes major time out of my work day. Any suggestions? Do you have to train all these spam softwares?

[Train]

I check my email on line first and use the spam filter there to cut a lot of that garbage.
But the spammers only have to change one thing then you have to catch it again. So yes, filters have to be trained.
Just my way of handling it.

[SpywareDr]

Use Gmail instead. Their SPAM filter is unbelievably accurate.

[jdc2000]

I have yet to see any consumer spam filter or webmail filter that works in a way I would consider usable. Most can block a lot, but not all, of the spam. However, all of the filters I have seen also block some of your legitimate e-mail, which is completely unacceptable to me. If any of your legitimate e-mails are blocked, you may never even find out about it, since your contact will just assume that you no longer have any interest in anything they have to say.

There was one Exchange Server based spam blocker that worked reasonable well by checking the e-mail header info to see if it matched where the e-mail really came from, but for unknown reasons that method is no longer used on the product, so it no longer functions any differently than any other filter.

However, if you are getting 500+ spams per day, you may need some software asssitance. All software will need considerable setup time to make sure that all of your current contacts do not have their e-mails blocked, and you may still have to go through a folder of "possible spam" messages each day to check those that the software is not 100% sure are spam.

[jonnyb]

I want to thank you all for the information. This question is for a customer of mine and to those who will search VDr for this subject.

[SpywareDr]

The Department of the Interior just joined a number of other
federal agencies in moving to Google's cloud email services.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/...saas/232901270


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