InBoxer SPAM Filtering

[Jeff Mottle]

I think I may have mentioned this is the past, but wanted to let everyone know of the app I use to filter SPAM locally in Outlook.

 

http://www.inboxer.com

 

I've tested almost every software SPAM filter (commercial and free) on the market and found this one to be better than ANY of the rest by large margins. To date I've filtered over 15,000 spam messages in the 5 months I've been using it, with less than 0.5% false positive rate. It misses only about 1% of the SPAM.

 

The best part of this system is that unlike others that need to receive spam first to learn, which this app also does, it can learn from your existing email messages to determine the type of content that is typically found in your emails. It can build a database based upon this mail and you are up and running with more filter capability than most other softwares. The database balances content that you condider spam and what you consider good.

 

Another item worth mentioning is a new hardware spam/virus filter that my webhost just implemented. This cut my SPAM down to about 25% of what I was getting in the past.

 

https://www.barracudanetworks.com/

[Harjeet Singh]

Thanks for the link Jeff!, will post my experience soon.

[Tuninho Prieto]

HI JEFF,

 

Thanks for the link.

I downloaded the demo version and mentioned the cgarchitect and your name and they sent me a copy of inboxer FOR FREE!

 

I will reply and tell them that you should receive a free copy too!

 

Here is the email they sent me:

 

"I saw your comment in the list of people who downloaded InBoxer. Thank you for letting us know about the InBoxer mention in CGArchitect.com. We did not know about it until your email arrived. Therefore, as promised on our site, below you will find your activation key.

 

As a small company, the comments in the press are the best way for us to be noticed.

 

As promised, here is your free InBoxer for letting us know about the article:

 

Thank you very much.

 

Regards,

 

Roger Matus

Chief Executive

Audiotrieve, LLC (the makers of InBoxer)

[Jeff Mottle]

Hey that's great news. Not sure how they will feel about the entire CGarchitect community emailing them to tell them about the article. I hope the only restrict it to the first person that tells them. ;-)

 

I was not aware that they had such a program. Anyway, I'm positive you will love this software. Let me know how it works for you.

[Ernest Burden III]

I have been using a free-ish app (begware) to do manual SPAM filtering, Mailwasher.

 

What bothers me about your description of this new app is that it involves downloading email to ID it as spam. With Mailwasher, I am looking at the inbox still on my ISP's server, and delete what I want before downloading anything. But I do it manually. The PROBLEM is MW relies on a couple of 'spamcop' websites to decide what to tag as spam, and as more and more people fall victim to address spoofing they get wrongly tagged as spamming domains. I have had it happen to two of my three domains, so it seems I am a spammer to these filter lists.

 

Can InBoxer preview what's on your server pre-download?

[Jeff Mottle]

Hey Ernest,

 

No it's as you describe and you must download the mail first. Other than bandwidth (and seeings I don't pay for that with my ISP) I don't mind it it downlaods to be filtered. Either way you have to check filtered mail and I'd rather do it in Outlook than another app that has to run in memory. I already have so many that my system requires 300MB just idle!

 

The best thing about Inboxer is that it learns what YOU think is spam, not what someone else thinks is spam. For example I get about 10-15 press releases a day. For most this type of mass email would be spam or at the very least be considered spam by a spam filter. For me that is valuable mail. InBoxer uses Baysian filtering so it continues to learn as it goes, and it's damn accurate once it is up to speed. Man listen to me, I should be on their payroll. ;-)

 

Just try it!

[Tuninho Prieto]

JEFF,

 

The promotion was only for the first person who tells about any repport about inboxer.

 

Anyway, thanks again for the indication.