Readers Respond: What Spam Filter Are You Using?

Which spam filter, though, is it? Do you rely on your email service's? Have you trained the filter built into your email program? Are you using a separate spam filter?

How satisfied, then, are you with your spam filtering? I'm relying on...

MailWasher

MailWasher is the best. It can be used with practically anything.

—Guest a jew

Thinking about returning to SpamBayes

I'm using whatever GCI (Alaska) includes, it's moderately. Thinking about going back to SpamBayes.

—Guest Frank Pratt

I Loved Ella, Now No Longer In Business

Neither [the article on this site] nor the responses are dated, so I don't know how current this information is. I installed Ella based upon this recommendation and loved it, but since they are no longer in business, I can't buy the permanent version. Since I don't want all my email to be tagged with Ella's watermark, I'll have to try something else. Susan in PDX, September 2010

—Guest Susan

I use Gmail

I use Gmail, and it does a great job. Any spam, about five or six a day, gets put in my spam folder. That count just went up from about two a day. I might get one spam a month, if that, going into my in box. I like Gmail's results. Works for me.

—Guest Terry

Spam Filters

I use a combination of basic IE explorer, Norton 360 and SpamGuard from Yahoo. Once I mark something as spam, I don't get anything else from that address.

—Guest rneyal

Spam Filters?

I'm not sure. Whatever accompanies AOL, Yahoo! and G-mail, respectively. The filters for G-mail and Yahoo are very effective; AOL Mail, not so much.

—MemphisBelle11

Netscape 7.2 Junk Mail Controls

Yeah that's right good old Netscape, once you set up their Junk Mail Controls they block about 98% of spam and either delete it automatically or put it all in a Junk Mail folder just in case [the filter] grabs a legit email, these days it almost always knows the bad guys.

—boyfudd