Cloudmark Anti Spam Software reviews please

[The Villan]

Hi
Having got so fed up with F2S's inabilty to control spam, I have decided to give Cloudmark a trial. I have 15 days to use it for free.

My first observations.

Very easy to install.

It went through all my existing e-mails and pulled out spam that I didn't realise I had.

It puts a very nice toolbar onto Outlook Express that allows you to block spam or phish that escaped the Cloudmark check. It also allows you to click on unblock for any e-mails that are not spam or Phish.

It creates a spam folder where all spam ends up.

My first thoughts are very positive.

Anybody else got any comments about this software, especially people who are using it.

Thanks

[The Villan]

Sounds like nobody uses it. WEll my findings are that it is 100% accurate on the filtering of spam & phish.

So why cant F2S do it?

[clodia]

I am using eudora which comes with a spamfilter of its own when you use the pro-version (used to use spamnix with it before that.)
Not a fan of outlook express ...

[mrjones]

Originally Posted by The Villan

Sounds like nobody uses it. WEll my findings are that it is 100% accurate on the filtering of spam & phish.

So why cant F2S do it?

This maybe part of it...
Cloudmark Server Edition, 750 Users, 2-yr. Subscription, $15,199.00 USD
Just think how much the ISP version would be.

[wfnuk]

I gave Cloudmark Anti Spam Software a try after your posting and I was NOT impressed at all as it put an awful LOT of legitimate e-mails from friends into it's 'spam' folder yet totally ignored a few spam e-mails that I'd deliberately left in my inbox to test it! It has now been removed and gets a big thumbs down from me! I'm sticking with MailWasher Pro.

[The Villan]

Thats strange,becuase it hasn't got anything wrong for me.

When I first set it up, I got it to run through all my e-mails and it pulled out soem of my friends as spam, becuase they had circulated quite a few people, but when I said that these people were OK, it is didn't treat them as spam.

[akita_inu]

I just use Thunderbird, which has it's own in-built Spam filter which learns as it goes along ..... I've only been using the filter for a couple of weeks, and it rarely gets it wrong ....

[The Villan]

Thunderbird. is it free? if not how much?

[mrjones]

yeah,

try it here http://portableapps.com/apps/interne...rbird_portable
just download this an extract it, no need to install, just run it.

[acidtechno]

Mozilla Thunderbird is a full e-mail application, so you will have to choose to use it completely and ditch OE if you want to use it. It has import options.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

I use it, and it's very good, haven't had to use spam filters yet though, because I don't have that problem.

Firefox for browsing and Thunderbird for e-mail make a good combination.

[The Villan]

OK I have downloaded moziilla and have it operating. Went very smoothly.

First attempt at geting mail resulted in 6 spam e-mails - clicked on Junk button then deleted them.

Now lets see what happens.

Any tips welcome.

[mrjones]

Originally Posted by acidtechno

Mozilla Thunderbird is a full e-mail application, so you will have to choose to use it completely and ditch OE if you want to use it. It has import options.

The reason I gave a link to portable thunderbird is that he could have tested it out without disturbing much.
I use portable thunderbird & portable firefox and also some of the other portable apps just for convenience.

[The Villan]

It imported all my stuff and everything is working fine.