New Spam Filter

[mochegod]

Just read this artilcle on the PC World site about a new spam filter for Outlook 2002:

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,112478,00.asp

Looks cool, but I saw a support post on the SpamBayes site from someone complaining that they could no longer sync their IPAQ using ActiveSync 3.7 and Windows Mobile 2003:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=807234&group_id=61702&atid=498104

Has anyone tried this spam filter, successfully or not? Are there other spam filters for Outlook 2002 (besides the Outlook Rules Wizard) that are ActiveSync friendly?

[AL904a]

When I first started looking for a Spam filter for my desktop PC, I thought I wanted something that integrated with Outlook too. But, after trying several products, reading lots of reviews, etc, I changed my mind.

I have been using Mailwasher Pro for five or six months, and I love it. I have found that deleting email off my several POP3 email servers, before they ever get to my PC beats anything that tries to utilize Outlook's "rules" to manage spam.

Advantages of deleting email at the mail server include the fact that virus-infected stuff almost never comes to your PC. (Of course, I keep my virus-protection software up-to-date as well.)

Another big advantage of Mailwasher Pro, is that you can "bounce" spam back to its source. Bouncing email makes it look to the sender that your email address is no longer valid. Of course, many spammers never even look at bounced email, but it can't hurt to try.

Mailwasher allows you set email addresses as "friends" so that emails from those addresses are automatically set for download, and set other email addresses as "spam" and marked for deletion/bouncing automatically.

After checking for email on your server, alerting you that you have email, Mailwasher deletes/bounces spam, and takes you to your mail program (Outlook, for example) for downloading your filtered mail as usual. It really works well!

You can check out this excellent software at http://www.firetrust.com/products/mailwasherpro

There is a less supported and less featured free version at http://www.mailwasher.net/