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I, we are having a lot of spam on our outlook emails at work and is driving everyone nuts. Was wondering whether anyone has had sucess in downloading a good spam filter program that works? Cheers
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Use Gmail.

Open any email account with them and in the settings you can add other POP 3 accounts and send and receive from them in the Gmail account. Its spam filter is excellent.
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Spamcop is owned by Iron port who are perhaps the best spam filtering company in the world.

For $30 per year you can have them filter your mail

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I use gmail as well... its cheaper than spamcop
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+1 for gmail, as I posted extensively about gmail before the great forum crash of Jan 2008.

Gmail's spam filter is excellent. Go the POP 3 route as Sanity suggests, screw paying $30 a year, or even worse paying a monthly fee to bigpond for a spam filter that doesn't work.

Gmail is up to 7 GB space now too.
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Yep , if I remember correctly it was Globe who put me on to it. Its too good an option to not take up really , if not just for the spam filtering the massive storage space is great.
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Thanks everyone for your replys. opened up an account with Gmail and spam filtering is much better. Shame those responsible for all the spam don't get squashed and delt with themselves
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I just use Outlook 2007's spam filtering, works fine for me.
Anything that slips thru just add to the block list.

If ya getting hit hard, i would suggest staying away from the porn and
dodgy downloads...lol
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Thanks everyone for your replys. opened up an account with Gmail and spam filtering is much better. Shame those responsible for all the spam don't get squashed and delt with themselves

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Use Gmail.

Open any email account with them and in the settings you can add other POP 3 accounts and send and receive from them in the Gmail account. Its spam filter is excellent.

i haven't got a gmail yet, i think i shall try it later.

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mozilla thunderbird email client has a pretty good adaptive learning junk filter. I rarely see junk mail in my inbox. Although you still have to download the mail from your isp prior to thunderbird running its filter rules across incoming mail.
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