What SPAM filter do you use?

[George]

OK I thought this would be a good question to ask in a forum for techs because I am fed up!

I have an email address that it almost seems that spammers find funny to send messages to. No kidding I get over 100 spam messages per day on 2 email addresses I have.

I've seen some nice methods like autoresponders that make you go to a webpage and verify that you are a human in order for the message to go through but I can't find a free one :(. (I am an advocate of free stuff which is why this site will always be free:))

Anyone have a "free" spam blocking method that works well?

[Entropy3XD]

Oh man!!!! I share your pain. I use MS Office 2003 which has a "junk mail" folder in Outlook for which you can set up to divert unwanted mail. It works fairly well, but some junk still gets dumped into my main email folder. Unfortunately it is not a free option.

[George]

Yeah I could always set up rules to only accept emails from people I know but the thing is I don't like those kinds of methods because you still have to go through and sort all that junk mail in case an important one gets tagged accidentally. So it kinda defeats the purpose.

[mazzarak]

I think I am blessed that I currently don't receive any spam to any of my email addresses. And I haven't got any filters apart from the hotmail one that comes with the package.

They had a thing on the TV here yesterday saying that a guy in the UK estimates that all the spam in the world is only generated by at most 200 people, sending 80 million messages a day.

So you must be getting my share!

[Keisuke Hashimoto]

I share your pain as well.

I get so many spam messages coming every day into my main email box. Many of them are coming either in English or Korean or Japanese or Chinese.

I am using email filtering service but it is not perfect as it is free option service added to my ISP account and filtering configuration is based on "from", "Reply-to", "Subject" etc.. so it can not block every spam message.

Overflown spam messages into my main email box are erased manually by me each by each. This is certainly annoying. I never look into them at all. Just erase,erase, erase..

More annoying is that when I dial up via public pay phone or wireless PC card etc.. to download emails, I have to pay for all these spam mails to be downloaded.

Spam messages must be perished from this planet earth!

[Kevin]

Spam is sooo evil!

I use www.fastmail.fm for my personal email - they have several levels of service from free to around $40 a year (which is what I use). Certainly with the $40 a year service you get very good spam filtering and good control over what mail goes where, etc. It also supports IMAP - which I love.

I tested it by getting it to download mails from my old (and evil..) hotmail account that gets around 50 spams a day - it does a very good job of throwing away the spam, and passing on the real mail.

[MACC the AVCOtek]

I use SpamPal to filter my Outlook email. It works pretty well and it's free.

http://www.spampal.org/