Spam protection

[ianforest]

Hello there!

I have Outlook 2007 and am looking for a program which will help protect me from SPAM.  Most of them out there try to be clever by "reading" the e-mail and giving it a spam score percentage.  This is not what I am after.

What i am after is a system that will allow me to feed it a whitelist of addresses (i.e. good e-mails in my inbox as well as e-mail addresses i've sent e-mail to) which will ALWAYS land in my inbox and then quarantine any other e-mail from an address which isn't in my whitelist.

Further to this, if an e-mail lands in the quarantine area, i'd like to be able to click on it to approve it as a legitimate e-mail message and for it's email address to be added to the whitelist.

Does such a system exist?

[soybean]

I don't know but do you know whether your ISP offers spam blocking features?  My ISP is Earthlink. I use both Outlook Express and Outlook 2003 for email.  But, I really control spam by logging onto my email address via Earthlink's WebMail access and creating my whitelist/address book there.  It's been a very effective way of controlling spam.  Every day, Earthlink also send me a list of stuff that is suspect mail. If I think there's something there that I want, I just logon to WebMail and add that sender to my online address book or, if it's likely to be a one-time occurrence, must move it to my Inbox but not add the sender to my address book.

[WillyW]

Hello there!

I have Outlook 2007 and am looking for a program which will help protect me from SPAM.  Most of them out there try to be clever by "reading" the e-mail and giving it a spam score percentage.  This is not what I am after.

Have you checked out an email client named Thunderbird?

I use it, and like it.   However I have never had need to really test and experiment with its various spam controls.  
It may do just that...  "read" the email as you said.     The junk filter is trained by you though.

Your best bet might be to read up on it.

By the way -  it is free.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq

There is a link on the above FAQ page to:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Fighting_Junk_Mail_with_Netscape_7.1
It says Thunderbird works the same.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/forums
links to Thunderbird specific forums.  

What i am after is a system that will allow me to feed it a whitelist of addresses (i.e. good e-mails in my inbox as well as e-mail addresses i've sent e-mail to) which will ALWAYS land in my inbox

I believe all addresses in your address book would always land in your inbox.   This is configurable by you.

and then quarantine any other e-mail from an address which isn't in my whitelist.

You might be able to set up a filter to do this.
As a matter of fact, you might be able to set up filters to do everything you want.

Further to this, if an e-mail lands in the quarantine area, i'd like to be able to click on it to approve it as a legitimate e-mail message and for it's email address to be added to the whitelist.

Does such a system exist?

[ianforest]

Hi there,

I have checked out Thunderbird and did in fact use it for a year or so, however I had a program developed for my business which utilises the office system and it's all tied in with outlook and access therefore I cannot use Thunderbird for e-mail.

I may look into it a bit further.