[BNM] Anti-Spam software

[Chris Billett]

Hi Alan, had a quick flick through the thread and don¹t think anyone has
mentioned this. My mail is all routed through the fantastic (no, really, I¹m
*not* on their payroll!) United Hosting, who used to use Spam Assassin. It
sucked. They made noises about moving to MailFoundry about a year ago, and
all sorts of ridiculous claims about 99% spam killing and zero
false-positives which I didn¹t believe and... which... turned out to be
utterly true. It¹s amazing. I get one summary email a day, and no spam
whatsoever. Have been living in email utopia for at least nine/ten months
now and have possibly had to release one email from the daily summary (which
it learns from for the future, too).

http://www.mailfoundry.com/
http://www.unitedhosting.co.uk/mailfoundry-spam-filtering.php

CB

On 06/02/2008 12:39, "Alan Newman" <alan at sensibledevelopment.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Yeah, moving the email account to another provider isn't really an option -
> we host our own email - so I am looking for something I can put on our
> server that will do the job.
> 
> I am not really a fan of the gmail thing - because ultimately it looks to
> clients (ie. People not email software) as though your email has been sent
> from gmail, which doesn't look to professional (imho).
> 
> - Alan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Mans
> Sent: 06 February 2008 12:28
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Anti-Spam software
> 
> On 6 Feb 2008, at 12:22, Alan Newman wrote:
> 
>> > Has anyone got any ideas? I am happy to pay for software ­ it
>> > doesn¹t have
>> > to be free.
> 
> I've sort of given up on both using client-side solutions and trying
> to set up server-side stuff -- you just can't keep up with the
> spammers. I'm now using IMAP accounts with fusemail.com, who have a
> very, very good spam filter. Before that I was with fastmail.fm, who
> were very good, too. Gmail's spam filters are very good as well,
> especially considering you can use it for free.
> 
> I know some people who route all their mail to Gmail and have it
> forward non-spam mail to another account. Maybe that might be a
> solution for you if you don't want to switch your accounts over to one
> of the above providers.
> 
> Hendrik