F***n spam!

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I was using spamkiller before this and although it was good, the memory overhead of running it was an issue for me. One major advantage of spambayes is that it has almost no memory overhead compared to most other programs.

The way spambayes works is as a proxy client.. which I do leave running all the time, but only needs to be active when you want to check email.. the client is tiny anyway and is no problem to run as a startup service.

Basically you tell spambayes what your pop3 account details are.. then change your email client to use "localhost" as the pop3 address.

Then when you go to collect email your normal email program conects to your spambayes proxy, the proxy connects to your email server and collects the mail... and simply adds a "mark" on each message if it thinks it is definitely Spam, definitelty a Good email or Unsure.. It doesnt delete mail or anything.. just rates it.

Then you can use your current email clients rules to sort the email using those "marks"

So its probably good for your anal problem ;-)

I am also going to check out the Cloudmark one now too though. Based on what others have said in this thread it seems to be worth the effort.. there is so many new ideas on how to deal with email around now I am hopeful SPAM will be a non-issue of the past in the forseeable future.