Lachlan Grant01 August 2006, 3:40 AM
Do you want to go into business being a direct-to-the-public reseller of leading erectile dysfunction drugs? No? Then you need a decent spam filter... and this open source, GPL-licensed filter is superbly effective.
Lately, I’ve been considering going into business … selling a huge array of erectile dysfunction and pain relief drugs at low cost to the public.
I’ve found myself plenty of reliable sources for Vijagra, VjlIAGRA, VIAjAGRA, CjlIALIS, Cijalis, Ambijen and even Valijum!
My suppliers are so eager to get me into business that they’re sending me emails everyday… sometimes every hour. It's great! They’re obviously really supportive of my future endeavours.
I’ve heard that a lot of other people have been approached by these companies too, and if you're one of the lucky few that doesn’t want emails from them any more (Heaven forbid!), I’d recommend a handy little app called Spamato.
Spamato is an open source, GPL-licensed, spam filter system that’s written in Java. It comes as an add-on for Microsoft Outlook and as an extension for Thunderbird and Mozilla Mail.
However, if you're one of the unfortunate few using a mail client that missed out on getting a dedicated (i.e. Apple Mail), you're still in luck as Spamato also comes as a stand-alone proxy component.
Personally, I’d recommend you do yourself a favour and install Thunderbird; you’ll be happier… but that’s another blog.
What separates Spamato from the plethora of other spam filters, is that it uses a range of filters to separate spam from ham (not spam).
At current, Spamato comes with a heap of different filters including Bayesianato, Comha, Domainator, Earlgrey Filter, Razor Filter, and Ruleminator.
Each of the filters specialises in filtering emails in its own way, and can be tweaked and adjusted for increased or decreased sensitivity.
Once an email is classified as spam, it is moved to a separate folder so you can then review the catch for false-positives, and then train Spamato not to classify them as spam.
I've personally found it a lot better at catching spam than Thunderbird's built in filter, and definitely better than Outlook's completely non-existent (or, in later versions, present but completely ineffective) filter.
Downloads and installation instructions for all the Spamato versions can be found at http://www.spamato.net/.
