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Is the spam filter worth installing?
 

I've read on the forum that it doesn't really work
very well(?) I've got Spam Assassin working server-side,
but it seems lately to be not catching some of the new
techniques being used by the spammers.

Would the plugin fair any better than Spam Assassin?

Also, am I right in thinking that the AGAVA plugin is
just a trial version of a paid product?

Cheers.


 
The AGAVA plugin has two varieties, a paid version (with trial) and a limited free version. I don't use any of the plugins, so I can't give you a qualified evaluation of any of the available plugins.
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I'm just a user of The Bat! I don't work for Ritlabs.
 
I have the paid version and it seems to be catcing some of the spam as it slowly "trains". It tosses it into a "Junk" folder for examination and deletion and or spam reporting
 
I can't even get the factory spam filter installed.

Below is a message I tried to send to the software publisher. I couldn't send it because I don't yet have a registration number. But I'm not going to get a registration number unless I decide to buy the program, and I can't decide that until I test it out and get the answers to a couple of questions. Sound like Catch-22?

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I just downloaded The Bat in hopes that it will do a better job of handling spam than other programs I have used (especially Pocomail, my current e-mail program).

Your documentation says "The Bat! is provided with the BayesIT plug-in to detect spam . . . " But I can't find it anywhere. My decision about purchasing The Bat relies at least 70% on its ability to do Bayesean filtering. Can you help me find the plug-in, please?

I also already have SpamBayes. Would that also work with your program as a plug-in?

Thanks.

--Fred Powledge
fredpowledge [at] earthlink.net
 
BayesIT came as part of the installation package when I first tried TB, but I found it a bit lacking. Then I tried the AntiSpam Sniper plug-in and it works quite well for me. Like all Bayes filters, it requires training. I used a sample of about 400 saved spam messages initially, together with a smattering of my saved good messages, and it's currently doing better than 97% accuracy. The errors are mostly failure to detect some of the newest image-based tricks of the spammers, but occasionally it puts a good message into the junk folder, so I still scan over the folder before blowing its content away.

Features of the Sniper that I like, and have not found in the other plug-ins I tried, include a "friends" list of addresses that won't be filtered at all, which I can edit at any time; a black-words list that can help identify spam without need to do more than parse the Subject line of the message; black rules; and white rules. The friends list can be built automatically when you flag a message as "not junk" or can be done by hand.

All in all, it compares quite well with PopFile which I used with my previous mail client, and unlike PopFile does not seem to be prone to freezing up at unpredictable times. There's a free version that doesn't have all the features, but the paid version is quite reasonable in price, and the developer is quite responsive to questions...
 
the free 'BayesIt' along with the 'Bayes Filter' works MAGNIFICENTLY for me.. better than 98% (i get about 100 spam a week, out of 500 emails a week)
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