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By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:18:42 +0000

Thanks – good article!

I have been using Spamsoap for 3 years now as a relay to keep spam out of our corporate exchange server. It’s the exact same concept and works great as well!

Jay

By: vaspers the grate, as in abrasive

vaspers the grate, as in abrasive — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:54:37 +0000

Gmail is excellant. Only about 2 or 3 spam emails per week get past its filters, and only 2 or 3 good emails per month find their way into the spam folder. And Gmail is free.

I feel that one should not tempt fate. It’s not a problem to display my email address in a non-harvestable format everywhere:

steven [dot] streight [at] gmail [dot] com

By: richard

richard — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:06:41 +0000

SpamBully and gmail have beenworking good for me for the last year

By: Cris

Cris — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:39:43 +0000

Gmail is free, does a darn good job, and has a great GUI. Keeping emails in “threads” has got to be the future of any email system.

I don’t believe that false positives are not a problem, no matter how much you pay. I scan the “junk folder” every day for the odd bad email. On rare occasions a spam makes it into my inbox. All I can say is that Gmail is worth the money I pay for it!

By: Markus Goebel

Markus Goebel — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:42:52 +0000

I use a very similar service for free: http://www.spamfence.net/ Yet for many years it keeps my inbox clean. My main email address is forwarded to another address at Spamfence. There the emails are being separated into Spam and Nospam. Spamfence forwards the Spam to one address and the Nospam to another address. This is the one I check regularly and it's nearly clean. Only one Spam every three day passes. Once a month I check the Spam address. It's full with thousands of spams. But I never suffer from false positives.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:21:54 +0000

I’m with the Spamsieve brigade here – works superbly! Also very impressed with Gmail too.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:45:49 +0000

I run mail from 3 different domains, i think about 8 accounts in total, through spamstopshere. It really is a an amazing product. I get perhaps one piece of spam per month!

December last year saw 8,600 messages go to the keeper (spam) and the rest hit my inbox (legit messages).

I recommend this if you manage multiple addresses and multiple domains.

By: tobias s buckell

tobias s buckell — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:27:47 +0000

I liked mail.app’s (Apple mail’s) spam filter, I was getting 1,000/day but Apple’s filter killed it to 20-30, but I’m finding myself increasingly using a pda, public computer, or my spare laptop without time to sync up the spam preferences. I used gmail to filter, but it was still letting in over 100/day after 2 month’s training, so this service looks appealing to me, thanks! I’m trying it out for the free month, but even off the bat just tonight it’s all but eliminated the constant trickle of spam.