We use Exchange/Outlook here. We also use GFI's MailEssentials anti-spam filter. It must be running backwards because it filters valid messages and lets crap get through.
So, I went back to running inbox rules in Outlook. That does a pretty good job except for the subjects that are comprised of random letters or numbers. In those cases, I try to find text in the body to filter. I really hate Outlook's rules since you can't have it look for text in multiple parts of the same message. The text must be just as you type it. You can't say look for this word and that word somewhere in the message. There are no wildcards. I would love to see a client support regular expressions. I could probably eliminate 99% of spam I receive if I had regular expressions at my fingertips. So, for now, I just let the GFI product do what little it does and then make up for it with Outlook rules. M!ke -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 3:46 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Alternates for client side spam filtering for the non-hardware savvy I am getting fed up with spam. I am currently just using the filter that comes with my e-mail client, thunderbird. It does a very good job, except I have to download all the messages before I can filter them. I'm tired of waiting several minutes to download 300 to 500 messages of which 10% are actual messages to me plus 40% or so list messages leaving 50% junk. Never mind what it's like if I take a day or two break from my computer for whatever reason. Previous to this, I had my ISP's spam filter on. It was nice in that I then did not have to download the spam. It was placed in a junk folder on the server. But I had to use the web interface if I ever needed to look in this folder for false positives and there where several of these a week. And it was a real pain to page through all the junk, 50 messages at a time, trying to find a message I knew had been sent but I had not received. So, other then recruiting some of the more violent members of this list to form a vigilantly party and hunt down spammers to hang them from 25 foot flagpoles by their private parts, what might I do that does not require me to go get some kind of systems certification? [Oh my, that was one sentence! Please don't let my high school English teacher see it.] Thanks for tolerating my spam venting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:161303 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
