Anti-spam tool for Outlook Express?

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

A friend of mine uses Outlook Express, and she is very unhappy about the amount of garbage that ends up in her inbox.

Does anybody know a good, free, and easy-to-use anti-spam tool for Outlook Express?

[AlanHo]

I have Outlook 2007 which has a spam filter built in - but one of my friends uses Outlook Express with the free version of a commercial spam filter she is happy with called Spam Fighter.

You can get from Here

[andsome]

An important thing as far as I'm concerned is to have an e mail address which is more difficult for spammers to happen up on. My previous address was [email protected]. This was easy for auto spammers to detect. I had started to get up to 100 or so spam messages per day. Since changing it to a more unlikely address a couple or so years ago, I have NEVER received a single spam message. :D

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Thanks for the responses; I will look into Spamfighter.

And you are of course right, Andsome, email addresses that consist of names or dictionary words are far more likely to be spammed than 'k3%s76s#d'.

P.S. I have also checked my friend's ISP, and it appears that they offer a server-side spamblocker service. It may be easier to activate than a client-side tool.

[andsome]

Thanks for the responses; I will look into Spamfighter.

And you are of course right, Andsome, email addresses that consist of names or dictionary words are far more likely to be spammed than 'k3%s76s#d'.

P.S. I have also checked my friend's ISP, and it appears that they offer a server-side spamblocker service. It may be easier to activate than a client-side tool.

Is that

pat@k3%s76s#d.co.japan

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This is a family forum. No swearing please :)

[Irene]

Thanks for the responses; I will look into Spamfighter.

And you are of course right, Andsome, email addresses that consist of names or dictionary words are far more likely to be spammed than 'k3%s76s#d'.

P.S. I have also checked my friend's ISP, and it appears that they offer a server-side spamblocker service. It may be easier to activate than a client-side tool.

My ISP has a blocker too, Pat.

It works very well. I just go in now and again to check that they have not put anything in which shouldn't be there.

[artist]

I'm happy with

http://www.spamihilator.com/index.php?lang=de

It takes a while to pick up most of it but I now only get a couple of spam males coming in.

It's very simple to use.

[AlanHo]

It takes a while to pick up most of it but I now only get a couple of spam males coming in.

You need a couple of strong bolts on the door.

[andsome]

It takes a while to pick up most of it but I now only get a couple of spam males coming in.

You need a couple of strong bolts on the door.

Well spotted. :lol:

[Scarecrow Man]

Thunderbird has a built in spam filter. http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Fighting_J...th_Netscape_7.1 (link is for Netscape, but applies to Thunderbird as well)

I've previously used spaminilhator, and MailWasher. Both work, but I ultimately ditched them both once I switched for Thunderbird.

[machiner]

I thought that this was the non-Windows support forum? This being the case, my answer is Linux-centric (although my option does run on Windows quite nicely).

I use claws-mail with bogofilter and get no spam. Honest. My email addresses have been out and about the web for years and I did have to mark a few things as spam that weren't caught in the beginning, but within no time bogofilter was built-up and I'm where I'm at today.

I get no spam.

I have 14 email accounts and get about 80 emails a day. lol, my gmail address gets all the spam.

[Dencandy]

I've had a Hotmail/Livemail address for 3 years and have never received a single item of spam. I've also had a Yahoo address for 4 years and occasionally get spam there. One difference is that I'm not a member of any Hotmail groups but am a member of some Yahoo groups.