Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 868775" data-attributes="member: 151">There are a variety of methods and products, depending on where and how you want to implement it.Personal Anti-spam software usually comprises plug-ins to your mail product of choice, or failing that, Outlook. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Seriously, since Outlook has the highest degree of market penetration, most of the anti-spam products are designed to work with it.  Essentially, each offers a bulked-up version of Outlook's inherint 'Junkmail' feature.  It doesn't prevent the spam directly, but keeps it from your eyesight, by automatically throwing it into a quarantine or the trash.  The more high-profile products will actually produce 'bounce' messages similar to what a server would, to simulate your address being invalid, which DOES help get you off of SOME lists.  My personal favorite is Spam Bully.  Server based anti-spam products vary, but all usually drill down to products like MIMESweeper and Ironmail.  These use a variety of methods to sniff out the spam.  They check the headers for falsified information, scan the actual e-mails for content (such as the presence of specific words, or persistence of same), block specific domains, addresses and ip addresses.  Initial setups can be time consuming and painful, as you tend to enter a 'trial-and-error' period of generating false-positives, and then adjusting filters and creating 'white-lists' to compensate.Services do much the same, but instead act as your actual mail server, and then relays your mail on to you, as opposed to your normal server.  This is more cost effective to big companies than to individuals. Brightmail is an example of this.  However, many large providers, such as AOL, MSN and Yahoo already subscribe to this service, and as you probably know, it's results are....varied.All of which may have been more than you wanted to know, or less.  I dunno. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

Verification