-=PCTechTalk=- Re: what is this and why am I receiving it?
- From: "Wyatt M. Portendt" <nunyabidness6@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:11:56 -0500
MailWasher is *not* a proxy service. SpamAlert is. Your email is not sent to
another site to be verified. It simply intercept the headers (and optionally
the messages) at *your own server*. The addresses can be cross-referenced to
blacklists, but the true power is in using regular expressions filtering to
weed out what you want to bounce. It works. I've proven it with three
separate mail addresses.
Without MailWasher I had about 15-35 percent spam rate in my inbox. Now I get
about one every two months - maybe. Since I handle about 75 to 100 emails a
day, that's pretty darned good.
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:38, you wrote:
> That's the first that I've ever heard someone getting 100%. Most of the
> time I've heard anywhere from 93 to 96%. The other thing I didn't like
> about MailWasher is the fact that it is a proxy service. I would rather
> have a solution such as SpamBayes that directly plugs into my Outlook.
>
> Dave
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Weaver" <djweaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:50 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: what is this and why am I receiving it?
>
> > Nope not familiar with it. I'm using SpamBayes right now. I've used
> > Mailwasher in the past, was okay, but wasn't thoroughly impressed, and
> >
> > I've used K-9. K-9 did all right once trained about a 93-94% accuracy
> >
> > rate (something I never achieved with MailWasher. SpamBayes is at
> > something like 98% accuracy. I'm pretty happy.
>
> That's odd regarding Mailwasher, I get 100% of all spam blocked, and I
> noticed within about 1 month that the actual amount I was getting had
> dropped dramatically.
>
> To get round the problem that James's spam solution causes I've just set
> up a mail rule to block anything from his address-the only problem with
> that is if he ever sent me a 'proper' email, I wouldn't get it
>
> Andy
>
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