Dear Mark, On Saturday, June 11, 2005, 6:52:03 PM, which was 8:46:43 PM where I am, you wrote:
G>> K9 running here. Gets almost all SPAM. rlmc> Yes, K9 is so awesome that I donated. I can see the attraction of an rlmc> all-under-one-roof solution, but I continue to use K9. The plugins rlmc> seem such a fiddle. I would recommend it to anyone using POP3. rlmc> K9, with good/bad databases of about 40,000 words each: Spam rlmc> consistently rates at more than 85% while good messages rate at less rlmc> than 15%. The decisiveness of the software is fantastic. It would be rlmc> true enough to say that spam never gets past. 100% rating in 34 days rlmc> (since I reinstalled XP.) rlmc> Other features include whitelists and blacklists. I have a few rlmc> important addresses in the whitelist, just to be sure (you never know rlmc> what your friends will send.) It can refer to online DNS blackhole rlmc> lists too, but I have that turned off right now. rlmc> Spam messages output can be custom-marked, including a percentage for rlmc> spam probability. Alternatively it can mark them with your own rlmc> invisible custom headers. Obviously TheBat! can filter and store these rlmc> into a time-limited folder. rlmc> All is no bother after a few weeks training. Just sits in the system rlmc> tray, silently outsmarting the spammers best efforts.. I used it too, up until about a year ago, and was extremely happy with the results. My only misgiving was that there was no password protection; my accounts in The Bat! are all password protected, but with K9, the contents of my all my e-mails were visible to anyone using my machine. -- Regards, Maurice -------------------------------------------- Using The Bat! 3.5, under Windows XP Pro SP2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5.25 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
