POPFile

I’ve got a new spam filter installed (Norton AntiSpam just wasn’t catching enough of it) – well when I say new I really mean ‘new to my current computer’ – when I used Outlook 2000 before, I used POPFile with that. I’ve now reinstalled it, and it’s already getting to work. Thanks to Outlook’s ability to display a webpage in the folder view (in this case, localhost:8080, POPFile’s configuration page) you can do everything you need from within Outlook itself, and it doesn’t just do spam, you can use it to organise all your email (it works by way of multiple ‘boxes’ rather than a simple spam/ham decision). It works with any email client (it works as a POP3 proxy in a similar way to antivirus scanners), and after about a week or so it will be 90%-plus accurate. I’m going to set it to record (anonymous) statistics, which I will post at a later date to show its effectiveness to any doubters

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