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Outlook701
Hi!;



I would like to know anyone of you to know where can I get any free anti spam mail plug in for outlook express? Or any free software can integrated with outlook express for filter out spam mail?



Thanks & Regards


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Have a look here for some message rule ideas:

http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm



Or just do a Google for Free Spam Blocking. K9 has had good reviews,

but this is not a personal recommendation.

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"kysiow" <kysiow@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

integrated with outlook express for filter out spam mail?



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Suggest Spam Inspector. I'm pleased with it although you have to teach it

what Spam is.





"kysiow" <kysiow@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

with outlook express for filter out spam mail?



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In article <93CC467F-E79A-40DC-859B-0DD9DF16E39A@microsoft.com>, =?Utf-8?B?

a3lzaW93?= says...



Here are a pair of Naive Bayesian filter proxies. Some who use either claim

in excess of 99% success in filtering spam.



K9: http://keir.net/k9.html

POPFile: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/



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kysiow said in news:93CC467F-E79A-40DC-859B-0DD9DF16E39A@microsoft.com:

Try Spampal along with several plug-ins, all of which are free

(www.spampal.org). It's not crippleware, demoware, trialware,

bannerware, or other promoware. It's free and developed by an

altruistic community of developers dedicated to eradicate spam.



While some of the other anti-spam products mentioned providing Bayesian

filtering, that's just one of the plug-ins and capabilities of SpamPal.

Its primary means of filtering spam is to use public blacklists of known

spam sources. Other plug-ins provide the following: HTML filtering to

remove nasty content, like web bugs, without losing the advantages of

HTML formatting and will snag mutipart e-mails (some scum will try to

spread a virus across multipart e-mails to avoid anti-virus software but

there is rarely a need to use multipart e-mails and often the use of

such is rude to the recipient); catching URLs within a message for known

spammers; using regular expressions to give you more powerful rules;

personal whitelisting and blacklisting; a Bayesian filter already

mentioned but which also provides periodic purging of the noise to

reduce false positives; quarantining of messages in text-only format (so

you could use a rule in your client to delete the message but still have

an text-only archive copy of the message in case of false positives; and

some other plug-ins and features that I haven't used myself. One of the

advantages of the Bayesian plug-in for Spampal as opposed to other

products that only rely only on a Bayesian filter whereas the Bayesian

plug-in for SpamPal can also learn from SpamPal and other plug-ins as to

what is spam which helps it learn faster. If you have old messages

around, you can use those to pre-train the Bayesian plug-in (but you

have to separate them into good and bad email groups so the Bayesian

plug-in knows which way you are pre-training it).



SpamPal runs as a local proxy so it is usable by any POP3-compliant

e-mail client. Just be careful of which public DNSBLs (DNS blacklists)

you use since some are irresponsible, unresponsive, and overly

aggressive which will result in false positives. I discontinued using

the SPEWS list, including SORBS (which uses the SPEWS list), because of

too many false positives and personally I disagree with their overly

agressive and unresponsive vigilantism. I use SpamHaus SBL + XBL,

Composite Blocking List, ORDB, SpamCop, NJABL, and blitzed.org. You may

need to experiment with the recipe of blacklists that works best for

you. SpamPal will add a header that marks what messages it or the

plug-ins think are spam. You use a rule in your e-mail client to notice

the special header and decide what to do with it. OE can't interrogate

but a few standard headers, so SpamPal also lets you insert a tag string

into the Subject line, like "**SPAM**". Most e-mail clients can check

for a string in the Subject line.



Just don't get too carried away with eradicating anything that *might*

be spam. I use Magic Mail Monitor (rather than leaving Outlook running)

because it has rules. Magic is also a POP3/SMTP client so I can run it

through SpamPal and use its rules to detect what SpamPal says is spam.

I can have Magic delete spam at the server so I'm never bothered

downloading it and having to delete it locally. Since SpamPal's primary

defense is public DNSBLs (DNS blacklists) of known spammers and only the

headers are needed for that, Magic can be speedy in just downloading the

headers and eradicate the spam at the mail server. However, I have it

log the rule-deleted messages just in case one of them was a false

positive. The delete log will show you the standard headers so you can

see if someone sent you something that you really want (so you can tell

them to send it again after you whitelist them or tell them to include a

passcode string in the Subject line that your rules check for and pass

through). Any spam that gets past using Magic and Spampal (via headers

only) ends up further detected by the rest of SpamPal and moved into my

Junk folder. Auto-archive is configured on the Junk folder to

permanently delete messages over 3 days old. I also turn off the

Preview pane for the Junk folder and enable the Auto-Preview mode that

shows the first few lines of each message but only as plain text. This

lets me catch any false positives or messages that I'm expecting but got

accidentally moved into the Junk folder, like after placing an online

order and getting e-mailed a sales receipt. Very little spam ever gets

past using Magic and its rules along with using SpamPal. The content

filters (SpamPal plug-ins) catch whatever leaks past the blacklist

checks against the headers and gets into my e-mail client (which also

goes through SpamPal).



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