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Monday, January 6, 2003 |
Spam, spam and more spamInternet Week reports that dealing with spam is costing about $12 billion per year.
I'm running an ORDB filter on my EIMS mail server, which helps quite a bit. I've tried Spamcop as well, but many people began to complain about blocked messages. EIMS has a DNS whitelist feature, but it's too hard to keep up with this manually, and Simple Text Filter has reports of instability, making it unwise for me to install at this point.
EIMS for MacOS X (currently in beta) is supposed to have better mail management, but I can't run prerelease software on something as critical as a mail server.
On the client side, POP Monitor is very good not just for spam management, but also for checking user accounts remotely to delete stuck messages, prune large inboxes, etc. And Entourage's built-in Junk Mail Filter is good, especially when supplemented with SpamSieve. It's as good as Apple Mail's spam management, and Entourage is a better app (IMHO). However, I'm still deleting a few hundred spams per day.
I'll get more into the client side of things when I post my experience with various e-mail clients later.
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