BOO!

'Kate wrote in message ...
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 23:37:04 +0100, "Paul Griffiths"


I run Mailwasher these days for very much this reason. I get around 200
spam emails a day now but it automatically filters out the majority of
them
and makes things more manageable for me.

How does it know the difference between real mail and spam?

It uses publically available lists of known spammers which seems to catch a
large proportion of them. The remainder it scans heuristically and makes
"suggestions" on the basis that it "might" be spam or contain a virus or
whatever.

It also allows the user to produce and maintain their own black and white
lists.

I often get emails with the university address and some from other
non-traditional
students that need help/advice or to vent. I don't want to filter those.

I have it set so that it doesn't automatically filter anything, just mark it
for deletion, then I just have to quickly cast an eye over the header info
before pressing the delete button.

It's probably not the best thing out there and it certainly has some crude
aspects but it works well enough for me ATM. YMMV


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Paul Griffiths