Posted by Erwin Moller on 12/04/07 13:03

phill.luckhurst@googlemail.com wrote:
> On 4 Dec, 12:21, "Rik Wasmus" <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:16:59 +0100, phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com
>>
>> <phill.luckhu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> The problem is that I'm on shared hosting so I'm not sure how they
>>> world work hence the challenge response thought.
>> Any descent shared hoster offers some sort of spamfiltering. Possibly you
>> have to create your own mail-rules locally for dropping certain mails
>> above some score if their default doesn't suit you. SpamAssasin is widely
>> spread, I've seen Baracuda a lot too.
>> --
>> Rik Wasmus
>
> Lycos offers none at all. Unfortunately I am tied into them for
> another year.
>
> My only other option would be to switch to a virtual server but as
> I've never set up one before I'm very reluctant to do so.
>
> I really do not want to go down the challenge response route after
> looking into it.

Hi,

If serverside spamdetection is a problem, you could also solve this by
using Thunderbird client (Mozilla).
It has a clientside spamdetection that works quite well.
It also learns from your actions, so if some spam ends up in your
mailbox, you can mark it as spam with 1 mouseclick.
I think it filters away around 90%-95% of the incoming spam, and I never
has a false positive.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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