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Curt:
To classifiy SPAMfighter as "useless", is not being serious.

SPAMfighter is of course just another anti-spam filter -
(and I really don't know or care what technique it is using):

When a new e-mail arrives, it is automatically tested by SPAMfighter. If it's spam, it will be instantly moved to your SPAMfighter folder. ... >
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 - but SPAMfighter is firstly and most important a community:
> ... If you receive a spam mail that is not detected, click on a single button, and the spam mail is removed from the rest of the 3.739.694 SPAMfighters in 217 countries in seconds.
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- and if the anti-spam filter is saying "this mail is spam" and you think 'not', then it is extremely easy for you to get the mail anyway: just open the SPAMfighter folder and have a look! Many of the apps recommended here will not give the user any chance to evaluate the mail that has been rejected by the filter - and I find such behavior unacceptable.


SPAMfighter also is:

SPAMfighter Exchange Module (SEM), is the easy-to-use anti-spam solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, 2003 and 2007.
Read about SPAMfighter Exchange Spam Filter

SPAMfighter SMTP Anti-Spam Server is the easy-to-use anti-spam solution for SMTP Servers for anyone from small businesses to service-provider.
Read about SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server

SPAMfighter Hosted Spam Filter, is the easy-to-use anti-spam solution for companies, organizations and individuals that have their own domain name and want a hosted solution.
Read about SPAMfighter Hosted Spam Filter

SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server, and Hosted Spam Filter support the following mail servers: ArGoSoft, CMailServer, CommuniGate, Courier, DynFX, GroupWise, IMail, Kerio, Domino, MDaemon, Merak, MERCUR, MS SMTP MAIL Service, Netscape Messaging Server, NTMail, Postfix, QMail, Sendmail, Winmail, Winroute, WorkgroupMail, XMail and more.
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Carol Haynes:
One of the things I dislike is the community approach. Every time I have used a similar approach I find loads of email gets classified as SPAM because too many members of the community use the spam sighting engine as a quick way to delete unwanted emails such as newsletters that are not really spam but people are just too idle to unsubscribe properly. Consequently you find yourself wading through hundreds of adverts for "penis extensions" and "viagra" to find the mail you consider legitimate rather than simply pressing delete.

Curt:
I don't know what app you are referring to, Carol, but it is not SPAMfighter. Once you have clicked "allow", the sender will never be deleted no matter what others may think of it.

wraith808:
Actually, there is a way to stop this, though it's painful.  I had the same problem with my domain.  Basically, they are using a legitimate address to lower their spam score in spam filters- that's the major reason they want to use your address.  So, the easy way to make it not worth their time is to switch e-mail addresses (like I said- painful).  I started using a different address on my domain as my primary address and dropped that old one.  When I recreated that e-mail addy a month later, I wasn't getting any of these bounces.  Since it was no longer a valid e-mail address, it no longer helped them reduce their spam score, so they stopped using it!  But yeah, that's the only way.  I even tried tracing the guy's ip and notifying his isp- he's in russia, so they did nothing about it!

Curt:
  - don't waste your time trying to stop this at the source as you will be wasting your time (sorry, I realise that this sounds defeatist!) - -Darwin (August 28, 2007, 10:06 AM)
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I "SPAMfighter-blocked" the spam mail (from the initial post in this thread), and then tried to send a mail from me to me. The first one was blocked by Outlook Express (OE), so I told OE to mark mails from me, and then I send off another mail from me to me. This one went all through. But I will of course have to wait and see if "he" (the guy I wanna hurt) ever sends me another mail (from "me"), before I know if the trick has worked the way I am hoping.

Thank you all for the advices!  :up:

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