Well, phooey.
This morning, 106 e-mails in my inbox, 1 e-mail automatically detected as spam and sent to the Junk folder.
Of the 106, 86 were actually spam.
Only 20 were expected/solicited/business e-mail.
Yeesh.
I need more correspondants, and/or a damned better spam filter.
Some selections, just to make it not a total waste:
- “I Want To Satisfy My Lover. How LONG Should I Be?” – At least fifteen minutes.
- Win a Computer in 30 Seconds or LESS! – I suspect I would win LESS.
- U.N.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y D.I.P.L.O.M.A.S – I. A.L.R.E.A.D.Y. G.O.T. O.N.E.
- idols bare all – Get a load at the size of that Easter Island baby’s nose!
- Increase you rankings in search engines – Yeah, because obviously enough crap spammers can’t find me yet.
- why x fxahi welf sqjkplu – Well, why not?
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I don’t know if they are in the Springs. Front Range Internet has a front end called mail armory that blocks most spam and doesn’t even hit your inbox. If they host your domain they provided the service for free.
This is my company’s e-mail. We have an internal spam filter, but the Messaging folks have gotten their hands slapped too many times from Corporate for blocking business-related spam, so they try to focus (when they can spare time on it) on filtering adult stuff; even there, they do a mediocre job.
I’ve been playing with SpamAssassin Pro (from Deersoft, now bought by McAfee and currently unsupported) on the client end here at the office. Configuration of SAPro has been limited (vs the host SA product). I’m currently evaluating IHateSpam, which is what the Messaging folks in the company recommend. We’ll see.
My personal e-mail, through Hosting Matters, has SpamAssassin built-in on the host end, and at that I still don’t get all that much spam (three, four messages a day). That’s okay, though it being on the host makes it difficult to configure and tune.
I use IHateSpam. I’ve been pretty happy with the results. It’s easy to configure, but for the most part just runs with little effort on my part.
I have to say that, since installing it this morning, every single spam that has come in has been caught by it.
We’ll see. It’s on 30 day trial.
How’s your IHateSpam trial going?
Just curious.
I liked it enough I’ve gone ahead and purchased a (company) copy for myself. The Outlook client is much better than the Outlook Express version (largely because OE is not designed to be expanded upon), but both do the job pretty well.
Let me know if they ever release a version that works with Agent.
Your company should get SpamAssassin. Then they can let the users filter and not be accused of blocking anything. Brown just implemented it for their mail servers, and so far, so good.
They do block any known spam relays, but everything else comes through.
From my experience personally managing SpamAssassin (on my home account), the “user management” end of it is way beyond what most folks want to have to deal with (or can), assuming it can be done on an Exchange Server .
I’ve tried SAPro on the client end, but it was not very configurable, and both it and the server product are now no longer supported, having been bought out by McAfee (for technological inclusion in to their SpamKiller product.
That borders on comment spam, but it’s on-topic so I’ll allow it. It looks like a possibly interesting service, but hopefully it does a better job than the copy editor on the web site (whose syntax is close to the correspondent, perhaps because his IP traces back to Japan, just as the site does).
On the other hand, I also see (thanks, Google) that this particular “comment” has appeared elsewhere before. Still, it’s on-topic, so I’ll allow it. For the moment.
On the gripping hand, inserting a comment about it in another post (even a related one) *does* constitute comment spam in my book, so that comment and the one here get zapped and the URL blacklisted. Thanks for playing.