I did a search but didn’t see anything recent. We’ve got some users at the small company I work for who get a ton of spam. We’ve told them about not giving their e-mail addresses out and we’ll be making it a formal policy. I’ve also set up Outlook’s Junk E-Mail filter on for some of them and set up a rule in Outlook which will shunt incoming junk mail to a separate folder, but two of them have told me they don’t want to take the time to flag spammers as junk mail senders.* Mindfield told me about SpamPal earlier this morning. Does anyone else have suggestions for spam filtering software which would be suitable for a small company? Here’s what I’m looking for:
[ul][li]It has to be cheap or free.[/li][li]It has to work with little or no hassle.[/li][li]It needs to be reasonably accurate. I’d prefer it generate fewer false positives than false negatives.[/li][li]It should run invisibly or nearly so.[/li][li]It must be compatible with Outlook and Outlook Express.[/li][/ul]
I’m looking at a dozen or two users ranging from us know-it-alls in the IT department who get no spam to people who know very little about computers and get lots of spam. Right now, I’ve got people who come into work in the morning and find 50 or 60 pieces of spam. While I know the perfect software doesn’t exist, I’d like something reasonably good and reasonably cheap.
Thanks for your help!
*I know, I know, but they’re not about to change, so it’s best I deal with them as they are. It could be worse!
jsgoddess, I’m afraid if I forwarded your suggestion to the people who’d need this most, they’d ask me to say it again in English. We’re talking about people who are quite good at their jobs, but know little or nothing about computers and don’t really want to know.
Too bad, because it’s not an elegant solution, but it works a treat.
I hate trying to come up with solutions for people who won’t learn because no matter how few false positives, there will be at least one.
We don’t have a dedicated computer person, so I end up having to come up with answers for my company, and this was the only one I could find where I could just say, “Nothing has changed for you. Don’t worry about it.” And then I’d put the gmail account on their Eudoras and tell them to squawk if there was a problem. Six months later? One squawk.
For those who need it but don’t want to flag messages, do nothing. Just let them bitch about all thier junk mail, and keep sending them the same instructions. I mean, holy shit, it’s like they have athlete’s foot and complain about having to use Tinactin (or whatever). If you don’t want to help solve your problem, just suffer through it.
We’re talking about people who are quite good at their jobs, but know little or nothing about computers and don’t really want to know.