Looking for a free antispam solution

[DomainEmpire.com]

I'm looking for something similar to spamarrest.com but free, is there anything currently available on the market ?
I need something where all senders have to confirm themselves by clicking a link the first time in order to enter in my "white list", not for a software to install, it should be something remotely hosted exactly as spamarrest, thanks.

 

[ZuraX]

IMHO these are a bad idea. If you get spammed and the spammer put my email as the from and you emailed me asking me to click a link, Ill click the link them report the email from you as spam.

 

[DomainEmpire.com]

But in theory this will never happen because spammers send out millions of emails per day and they'll never know (and will never have interest in knowing) the list of my "authorized senders", they work in bulk so this will completely solve my problem, according to my present needs, not sure if there's something of similar offered for free ... But surely I don't want to pay to avoid spam, I need a free solution.

 

[thetzfreak]

http://www.download.com/ChoiceMail-Free/3000-2382_4-10309545.html?tag=lst-6-7
This one has a rating of 5/5 from download.com

For outlook: Rated 5/5 from users
http://www.download.com/Junk-Out-for-Outlook-2002-2000/3000-9694_4-10199085.html?tag=lst-3-3

4.5/5 stars from users:
http://www.download.com/Mail-Box-Dispatcher/3000-2382_4-10341960.html?tag=lst-3-6

I hope that helped a bit

 

[PolurNET]

Cpanel already has that feature built in, check it out

 

[ZuraX]

If you are going to run a C/R system please read this URL
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html

All C/R does is push the spam problem off onto a 3rd party. It CAN get your account closed for spam.

 

[DomainEmpire.com]

Thanks for helping but so far I thought a remote solution (i.e. spamarrest.com) would have been the best way to solve all my spam problems forever ... no more sure now but surely I'd not feel better by installing a software which use keywords to filter junk emails, it might filter good emails too (in some cases, for many reasons).
Sure, I might have an option to see all filtered spam but this would waste my time and would not change things

I'm desperate, I HATE SPAM !!!
Ok, I'll test spamarrest for a 30days free trial period to better knowing its pros and cons.

What're the antispam options and advantages offered by cpanel ?
I know it includes Spam Assassin (never tested it but I think it uses the usual keyword filter technology, once again, not a valid solution for me).
I hate paying but I'll do if satisfied by the service and if I'll not find anything better in the meantime so I'll begin by testing spamarrest ... I know there're some ways to bypass it but I'll learn more tips with time and experience.

 

[ZuraX]

Sure hope that doesnt backfire on you when you start spamming 3rd parties.

 

[DomainEmpire.com]

This concept is not yet clear to me, probably I need to try it at my own risk to better understand what you mean.
I've currently activated [email protected] for a 30days free trial, I'll see what will happen.
Every morning I found around 20/+ spam mails there, today I found nothing and you can imagine my happyness
Mails don't bounce, they're stored for few days on spamarrest servers than automatically deleted but be sure I'll not go there to see them, I'll consider only messages coming from verified senders from now ... If someone should not have interest in verifying himself, probably he wasn't really interested in contacting me.

Still not sure to understand why this kind of system should spam others and I don't know also how someone might bypass it (nobody can know the addresses of the few verified senders and nobody would ever waste his time by attempting to reach me without verifying himself before), the positive thing is that spammers work "in bulk" and 97% of their addresses used as "apparent sender" are fake so I should have no more problem from now.

 

[ZuraX]

Its bad because what if the fake from address is real and belongs to some innocent 3rd party and you spam them with a confirm link email? Spammers have used my email as the from address in the past. I reported a few dozen people for spam when they sent me a confirm link.

Also say I am interested in a domain you have. I email you and get a confirm link. Guess what, I am not clicking it. Ill find a different domain. I dont jump through hoops. I have done it in the past and will do it again.

 

[DomainEmpire.com]

Ok thanks for the clarification but:

1- If a spammer uses a real addres as sender, this person mailbox will be bombarded in any case by bouncing messages and "delivery error" ... Obviously he'd find boring getting a confirmation request from my part but he should understand, looking at all other "error notice" that someone used his address fraudolently and that I've no responsability for such inconvenience.
If someone should use my address as sender, instead, people should imagine that a spammer would never use spamarrest to filter incoming replies if he worked hard to spam in bulk hoping to get a bulk amount of positive replies

2- I can't use spamarrest on the admin email I use for all my domains, this might cause problems for registrar transfers and important domain inquiries but I can still filter 100% of the incoming spam for my other mailboxes used for diff. activities.

 

[ZuraX]

Spammers can now send each spam as from a different from address.

Hey I give up I tried to tell you its a bad idea and showed you paes made by anti-spam admins who tell you why. Do as you please but dont hit the wrong account with a C/R in reply to a spam because I know some admins of large email places that will report you to your ISP and if they dont delete you your whole ISP will be added to a blocklist.

 

[HFear]

Thanks for helping but so far I thought a remote solution (i.e. spamarrest.com) would have been the best way to solve all my spam problems forever ... no more sure now but surely I'd not feel better by installing a software which use keywords to filter junk emails, it might filter good emails too (in some cases, for many reasons).

I use Gmail, and it has a really great spam filter. Every spam I've received has gone in the "spam" folder. I have checked a couple times and none of my e-mails that weren't spam have gone in there. :tu:

 

[kektex]

The person being "joe-jobbed" (that's the term when someone fakes your address on the from: line) is still gonna receive a LOT of bounces and error messages.I don't think it will make any difference whether the message is a c-r or a bounce.
Anyway spammers should burn in hell...

 

[ZuraX]

And according to spamcop.net you can report EVERY bounce as spam.

The days of accepting every email then bouncing it are over.

 

[kektex]

Well,I'm a spamcop fan , but that's just retarded. What would happen if my mail storage is full and the mail bounces? Or if the mail server is down?

 

[ZuraX]

uh no. That type of bounce isnt spam. Whats spam is recieving spam, then trying to deliver it to your user and finding theres no such account then bouncing it back to the faked from address.

The way it should work...

Connection from Host1 to Host2
Host2 asks who the email is for
Host1 says [email protected]
Host2 checks to see if that user exists
If it does it says ok and recieves the email.
If it doesnt Host2 SHOULD say sorry no such account and close the connection.

If Host2 accepts the email then checks and then bounces it to user@host3 then its spam.

Oh and if user234@Host2 is on vacation or whatever and has an auto reply on and user4567@Host1 emails him with userxyz@host3 as the from and user234 sends an auto reply to userxyz@host3 its also spam.