Best Anti-Spam Software

It doesn't look like Spam Arrest will work with Mail. Have you just tried a rule that if the sender is not in your AddressBook or previous recipients, to trash it?



-mj
macjack@gmail.com

Maybe you'll find useful software from

http://www.hendricom.com/

SpamX has an interesting function to automate tracing and reporting spammers to their providers.

Spam Sieve ($30) works well. A 30 day demo is available.

http://c-command.com/spamsieve/

- Wayne

PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I've done that and it didn't harm my AddressBook 😉

Edit: Don't forget you could also just leave them in "Previous Recipients".


-mj
macjack@gmail.com

I'm using Intego's Personal Anti-Spam X4 software, it works with Apple's Mail and MS Entourage only. It's good at separating out spam from good email, but first you must mark which ones are spam, and then it learns as you go. However it downloads all email using multiple filters (blacklists, URLs, attachment types, whitelists, lexical filters). Unfortunately it doesn't block the downloading of spam messages.

If you want, there is a special pack version called "Internet Security Barrier X4 Antispam Edition", which has Virus Barrier and NetBarrier (firewall) programs along with the Antispam app.

On a personal note, I combat spammers tendency of putting random letters at the beginning of email addresses by just keeping the last part of the email address from the @ symbol onwards (in my blacklist), and telling the program to look for addresses -containing- this part of the address.

See: http://www.intego.com/personalAntispam/

As Wayne suggested, I woud try Spam Sieve. I've been using it since the end of july, and since then, on near 5000 emails, it goofed up only 20 times. On this, there are 13 false negative, which you easily correct with the Train as Spam command. This is an overall 99.65% accuracy.

Since September, as it has learned a lot, accuracy jumped to 99.8%

And since the very last update, it it still up, missing about nothing as far as I can tell. You can also adjust parameters.

As this app uses fuzzy logic, it is a totally different ball game than Mail's Rules.

I hope that this helps a bit 🙂