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I've tried the filters with OE with limited success, an am wondering what
software programs (if any) work well with OE6 that can be set up with little
or no experience. Most of the spam I get is coming from one specific IP
address in Marina Del Rey, Ca. and I've reported it to the appropriate abuse
addresses I have, but still receive email from them. If I could find a
program that would filter out specific IP addresses that would be great,
especially if it was free! (= :
Thanks

dcz

Find reviews of anti-spam programs he

www.cnet.com
www.pcmag.com
www.pcworld.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=anti-...rograms+review

---
Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

dcz wrote:
I've tried the filters with OE with limited success, an am wondering what
software programs (if any) work well with OE6 that can be set up with little
or no experience. Most of the spam I get is coming from one specific IP
address in Marina Del Rey, Ca. and I've reported it to the appropriate abuse
addresses I have, but still receive email from them. If I could find a
program that would filter out specific IP addresses that would be great,
especially if it was free! (= :
Thanks

dcz

Ted Zieglar wrote:
Find reviews of anti-spam programs he

www.cnet.com
www.pcmag.com
www.pcworld.com
http://www.google.com/search?q=anti-...rograms+review

I recently had to do a complete reformat and clean install of Windows XP Pro
about 9 days ago. Rather than go to the trouble of recreating my previous
message rules which were quite extensive, I just reinstalled CloudMark. Life is
beautiful as I now have maybe one message a week sneak through.

I had originally started using CloudMark a few months ago after Blue Frog went
belly up because a series of spam messages kept getting through. You know the
type: it's a gif of a text message rather than the text message itself. They
usually were extolling the virtues of Viagra or whatever but even message rules
that deleted messages with attachments couldn't seem to filter them. CloudMark
does.

Now my message rules consist simply of distributing my incoming mail to the
appropriate folder. I did make one change: CloudMark makes the very first
message rule where it filters the detected crap and deposits it into a newly
created "Spam" folder. I changed it to my "Delete" folder. That, combined with
my selection in OE's options to dump the deleted folder with program exit
effectively does away with the trash with no muss; no fuss.

I've seen a very few false positives but that's easily corrected and all I do is
glance into the delete folder for a second to make sure something unintended
doesn't end up there. CloudMark doesn't make the same mistake twice.

CloudMark only filters email. You're on your own with newsgroups (I use
NewsProxy to supplement OE's message rules there).

And no, I don't work for either of them or have any ties other than being a
highly satisfied customer.

--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

There are quite a number of issues concerning bad interactions between
antispam software and OE. See www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

"dcz" wrote in message
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I've tried the filters with OE with limited success, an am wondering what
software programs (if any) work well with OE6 that can be set up with
little or no experience. Most of the spam I get is coming from one
specific IP address in Marina Del Rey, Ca. and I've reported it to the
appropriate abuse addresses I have, but still receive email from them. If
I could find a program that would filter out specific IP addresses that
would be great, especially if it was free! (= :
Thanks

dcz

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:51:37 -0500, dcz wrote:

I've tried the filters with OE with limited success, an am wondering what
software programs (if any) work well with OE6 that can be set up with little
or no experience. Most of the spam I get is coming from one specific IP
address in Marina Del Rey, Ca. and I've reported it to the appropriate abuse
addresses I have, but still receive email from them. If I could find a
program that would filter out specific IP addresses that would be great,
especially if it was free! (= :

Two good free spam filters:

K9: http://keir.net/k9.html
POPFile: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

K9 is strictly an antispam filter. POPFile was originally designed to
sort email; but it works well as a spam filter.

Which specific IP address in Marina Del Rey, California? That name
seemed very familiar, so I decided to look it up. No, there is no
"whois" database which matches spam source IP addresses to cities; but,
Marina Del Rey is the home of the organization which ultimately assigns
IP addresses: IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority). So I am
curious about the exact IP address. Better yet, show the full headers.
The odds are that you are reading a bogus header line.

--
Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum

"dcz" wrote in message
...
I've tried the filters with OE with limited success, an am wondering what
software programs (if any) work well with OE6 that can be set up with
little or no experience. Most of the spam I get is coming from one
specific IP address in Marina Del Rey, Ca. and I've reported it to the
appropriate abuse addresses I have, but still receive email from them. If
I could find a program that would filter out specific IP addresses that
would be great, especially if it was free! (= :
Thanks

dcz

Hi dcz
First ask your ISP if they provide an antispam service - most are getting
round to it - it will probably be free as well.
But check that they can stop the .gif type of spam, that is if they have
this service.
Save a lot of research time :-)
Antioch