K9 Anti-Spam.

Hello Forum,
I'm looking for a Anti-Spam program, I have heard that this is a excellent program, is this correct.what are your comments on this program.
Badcompany.

 

I used to use K9, and found it to be very good after some inital training. I got around 98% on average overall accuracy with their spam filtering, sometimes 99%.

 

Have you changed to another A/S program.

 

K9 learns really quick to seperate good from bad mail.
This is because of its excellent Bayesian filter, although you can use whitelists and blacklists as well. If I do recall, you could also address spamhaus or another to automatically flag bad mail.

When I used it, I had about 98% in about a week.
Also tried many others like Spamihilator (with plugins), Spampal, PopFile.
All those are free, so it's up to you to find the one which works for you.

Before you ask why I changed, I now have a bayesian filter integrated into my email client,
so no need to use a separate spam filter.

 

An excellent prog that I still use - always come back to it

 

This is a very good utility.
RK is a renowned coder.


K9 is still a great tool and the forums at http://keir.net/bb/ are still active.

RK is now more involved with Foundstone and I'm not sure how much time has been spent on K9 recently.

 

Be aware that K9 is not working with webbased email acounts like Hotmail,AOL and IMAP. It only works with standard POP3 Email accounts.

 

I've been using K9 for years now. It alone had a 99.8% accuracy the past year, "just" 99% the last month though due to an influx of as of yet unlearned types.

I haven't seen a new version for years, but there's nothing wrong with the current one. I combine it with spampal. If both marks a mail as spam, it goes straight to trash. If just one of them does, it goes to a spam folder for later verification. Generally I get maybe a handful of mails to the spam folder per week, the rest goes straight to trash.

 

Hello To All,
Thank you for your views, much appreciated.I now have K9 installed.
Badcompany.