[bonkers72]

Any {good} programs out there to filter out "junk" e-mails. Thanks, B-72

 

[=Phant0M=]

depends on what email prog you are using.

 

[kiwiguy]

MailWasher is one of the best.

 

[yankfan]

yeah, Mailwasher....been using it for about a month and really like it.

 

[AbvAvgUser]

Been using Mailwasher since about 10-15 days, but don't find anything great. Spammers have become smarter. Very few use same address twice. So blacklist is not of much use.

However, it is useful in deleting larger spam mail files directly off server instead of downloading it.

 

[joe2cool]

Been using 'Mailwasher' Pro for quite a while & the spam is cut down considerably, gotta give it time when first start using...........advantages to using the 'Pro' version .........

Wouldn't be without it !

Check!

 

[hewee]

Have MailWasher and it works great but no real need for after I changed ISP's and have keep my address safe because I have not gotten any spam in over a year now.

 

[js73]

Hi Hewee. Am I jealous of you, not receiving any spam for over a year! Me, I get lots of spam in my Yahoo e-mail, for which Mailwasher is not useful.

 

[joe2cool]

Should try 'PRO'

 

[crjdriver]

I use spam inspector pro. No problems with spam; it will even bounce the e-mail so it seems like your address is dead.

 

[Bob Cerelli]

Like in a previous post, it all depends on what e-mail program you are using. The best integrated ones I've seen only work with Outlook2000 or newer.

iHateSpam, Spam Inspect and Spambayes (which is free), all do a pretty good job and work right within Outlook. This way you don't need to keep checking mail with yet another program.

If you have to, then the Pro version of MailWasher is about your best choice, as noted in some of the other posts. You just need to keep remembering to use it before you send or receive mail.

 

[hewee]

Originally posted by js73:
Hi Hewee. Am I jealous of you, not receiving any spam for over a year! Me, I get lots of spam in my Yahoo e-mail, for which Mailwasher is not useful.

I have a user name for my ISP and ISP that is not used any where and it has letter and numbers in it. I don't use it to sign up for anything and have only give out the address to a couple of people.
Before I had with my old ISP the name hewee. But that user name was used all over the place and I had signed up places with it before I knew what spam was. My ISP also spam me. Was Pacbell and then SBC. they said they never spam but they did. Later they became SBC/Yahoo and after that they changed mail servers over to yahoo. All the same type of spam you get over and over and over for years had stop and then I was getting all new types of spam from new places. Now it was not MailWasher that did that but my ISP because they were the spammers.
I have Comcast cable know and I made sure from the very start that I did not want to be on and list of news letters or get info from 3rd party. I mean you can get it and then opt out from getting it but there is something in there where even after you op out they can still sent you things. I forget just what it was but it was posted over at the comcast forum. Makes you mad but you got to read the find print because just seeing that they will let you opt out does not do any good if they gave your address out to others.
Once they have your address your in trouble so keep it safe.
I have hotmail setup so all spam gets deleted right away and had to setup filter to delete the spam from hotmail because they say there spam is not spam but info you may like. Then I got MyWay for web email that has been good. I do get some spam but block the address or ISP it comes from.

 

[bonkers72]

Thanks for all the feed back. B-72

 

[joe2cool]

Originally posted by crjdriver:
I use spam inspector pro. No problems with spam; it will even bounce the e-mail so it seems like your address is dead.

So will 'Mailwasher'

 

[hewee]

Your welcome B-72

 

[crjdriver]

Originally posted by joe2cool:
So will 'Mailwasher'

The good thing about spam inspector is that you do not have to load any other program to check your mail. After you install the program, it is now part of Outlook. I dislike having to load two programs to check my mail.

 

[joe2cool]

Well you'd only need to open outlook if it was mail that was safe & you wanted on your server etc Guess its all down to personal choice

 

[AbvAvgUser]

Personally, I wouldn't like one software messing around with the installation of other software. Too much close integration is troublesome sometimes. I would prefer the way mailwasher works. Separate from OE installation, no integration. So I can use it as and when I want and can easily stop using it without any worries.

 

[hewee]

Same here AbvAvgUser and MailWasher is great.

 

[Bob Cerelli]

You might actually try some of the programs that work with Outlook as well as read their reviews. They actually work quite well and don't cause any undefined trouble. Certainly saves a lot of time as well.