Hi, You have a few options depending on the email client you use:
1. GiantCompany's Spam Inspector (this is the best one imho) and they have plugins for several kinds of email software. This is not free. Lots of settings to counter spam. http://www.giantcompany.com/ 2. Mailshell's SpamCatcher -- quite good in catching spam and you can set your own "tolerance level". At a 50% level, I hardly receive any of those 'cheap' emails. Both of the above 2 tools have never caught a legitimate email for me, but these are not free. http://www.mailshell.com . With these people, you could also sign up for an email account (e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED]) which actually pulls email from your existing email account. (So you access email through pop.mailshell.com but your friends still continue to send you email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]). In my opinion, this is a little better than spamcop where you need to pass around a totally new email address altogether. 3. Cloudmark's SpamNet -- it is still beta software, and YMMV. I found it to be so-so, but it is free and only has a plugin for Outlook at this time (note this is NOT outlook express). 4. Fourthly, you could sign up with Spamcop.net and get an email account which is "scrubbed". Server side solutions such as spamassassin -- I have heard mixed reactions. It worked very well for me for about 2-3 months, I was nearly enamored with it and had huge white lists and blacklists. But it doesn't play too well with qmail and started eating up my mail until I finally had to disable it totally. Personally, I prefer setting up blacklist-associated rules directly in your mail server, if you have the access, or client-side solutions these days are fairly sufficient too. I (used to) get approx 200-300 spam mails a day so I didn't mind paying for an efficient application at all. Hope this helps, Shashank www.shanx.com ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
