Acelightning - A Spam Killer 4U

A friend sent this to me, having remembered your pursuit of a decent killfile program:

I seem to recall that Acelightning was looking for a spam filter some time ago, and this one came to my attention. It sounds like it's worth a look: POPfile

Unfortunately it also requires Perl, which is a sizable (8.6mb) download.

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/system_requirements.plex
http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl
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Ramona

 

I don't think I want to install Perl on my computer. Thanks anyway. (I'm becoming more and more resigned to just having to delete most of the spam by hand - I've already got so many filters on my email it takes several seconds for Netscape to process incoming mail, and it still only catches about a third of it...)

 

Have you looked a mailwasher?

www.mailwasher.net

It is a seperate program that will delete the messages directly off of a pop-email server.

You can set it up with filters including whole domains by right clicking on the email and blacklisting it or the whole domain.

Since it does not actually download the message, it deletes stuff much faster than spam filters.

If you have a full time connection, you can set it to check and automatically delete the messages every few minutes.

 

I have a rather unusual mail setup here already. My primary email address is on a local ISP, which I used to use for dial-up, and where my personal webpage is still hosted. I download my email from there using Netscape Messenger. But I can't access their outgoing mail server except from a dial-up, so I send outgoing mail via my DSL provider. This means that the "from" and "reply-to" fields in my mail are different. (I have the "from" address - my DSL provider - set to forward all mail to my primary address.)

Under these circumstances, trying to send and receive email through a third (or, in this case, fourth) party like MailWasher makes things so complicated they hardly work at all.