On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:13:38 -0500, steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >...I now would >like to add a reliable anti-spam program. >I would prefer a freeware version or relatively inexpensive product >if one exists. I tried mailwasher but it will only work with one >email address, and I would like everyone using the computer to have >it working.
Well, I used K9 for a long time and it worked very well, but recently I swiched to PopFile and I am *VERY* happy: PopFile is less of a CPU hog than K9 was, and it trained amazingly quickly. And its web interface [to 'correct' its scoring] is a joy. It also supports multiple-buckets, rather than just "spam/not-spam". Depending on how capable your email client is this is either a big win or a ho-hum feature [it mostly helps out the OE folk, I gather]. I'm not sure how you're set up for having multiple people using the system. PopFile [as does K9] runs as a POP Proxy, so it'll happily deal with as many POP mailboxes as you'd like. [in fact, if several folk are sharing a mailbox, you can probably train it to use its 'buckets' stuff to automatically sort out email for each person]. The only problem with this is that all the users will be sharing the same Bayesean filtering DB, and so training might be a bit strange [if one person keeps marking a particular message as 'good' and another as 'spam']. BUT: I'd bet you can just run multiple copies of it and have each user have their own copy [you'd just have each version listen on a different POP port and HTTP port - - that stuff is all trivially configured through PopFile's web interface] PopFile is freeware and I heartily recommend it. <http://popfile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl> /Bernie\ -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
