Anti Spam

[Sjoeii]

How important is Anti Spam?
What do you think?

[risl]

Most ISPs filter spam, not important.

[vijayind]

Depends on your mail provider ( their filtering and inbox size ). Regardless there are also quality free AS tools available. ( SPAMfighter (http://www.spamfighter.com/), MailWasher (http://mailwasher.net/), SpamTerrier (http://www.agnitum.com/products/spam-terrier/index.php)and many more )

So when picking a suite, AS is probably not high on the agenda for people who know how to use Google and/or Softpedia.

[Logos]

yeah, as said most ISPs and web based email providers, as well as email clients already use efficient spam filters. But if you really wanted to make that extreme, I would suggest (not really recommend, it's not a tool for everyone) Spamihilator: http://www.spamihilator.com/

[NAMOR]

In a security suite? It's not important at all, since I don't use an email client.

[lodore]

MY isp has a very good spam filtering so not very important plus i use webmail.

[TonyW]

-{ Quote: "Most ISPs filter spam, not important." }-True, but some are more effective than others. It depends on what they use to do the filtering.

[Narxis]

For me it's very important.

[Chubb]

I am lucky, I seldom don't get spams, so I don't need this function.

[EliteKiller]

-{ Quote: "How important is Anti Spam?
What do you think?" }-
Since you're fishing for opinions I'll share mine. I use gmail webmail via IMAP and they have a very effective spam filter. As a result I have no need for anti-spam in an internet security suite. If you receive a lot of spam that is not filtered before it hits your email client then you may need a anti-spam capabilities. Otherwise switch to Thunderbird which has an integrated junk filter.

[Osaban]

Gmail here too. One of the best spam filters IMO, attachments are scanned for malware and executables are not allowed; highly recommended.

[Logos]

you might consider excluding the spam folder in Gmail from IMAP (can be done easily from the web interface, when advanced IMAP settings
are enabled, using a "lab" feature. If you don't want to do that, at least set the spam folder to download just headers in the client.