I Love SpamAssasin

At work, a while back I installed Cloudmark's SpamNet which does a fairly decent job of moving most of the copious spam I receive into a Spam folder. When I first installed it, would occasionally mark a legit message as spam, but that has not happened lately. I still get one or two pieces of junk a day that are not detected by SpamNet, but that's to be expected considering how SpamNet filtering works. For now, SpamNet only works on Outlook, although they're supposed to add support for Outlook Express in the future. Of course, the likelihood that they'll support the Mac is somewhere near zero.

No biggie, though. I have recently discovered that my Internet account allows me to use SpamAssasin on my personal email. I have enabled it on my account and it has been very good at intercepting spam. It takes a different approach to identifying spam messages than SpamNet and has been extremely effective for me.

I use SquirrelMail for on-line mail reading and have setup a rule that moves any messages with the (SpamAssasin inserted) header line X-Spam-Flag: YES straight to the trash. My in-box is so empty now, I almost feel unloved!