Email filter

[24giovanni]

Is there a good/free software utility which will enable me to filter safely my e-mail other than mailwasher? If so, can some of you please recommed some.

TIA

[pam123]

Try Spamfighter : http://www.dirfile.com/spamfighter.htm

[24giovanni]

Does spamfigher work so I when I click on my e-mail account (OUTLOOK) I won't see any spam?

[glc]

The best spam filters are server-side - which more and more ISP's are starting to offer. These filter the spam into a spam folder on the server and it never downloads. You would need to use the webmail interface to get at them. Some flag the messages with "spam" in the subject line and you can write a rule in Outlook to send those direct to the spam folder. As far as client side goes, the junk mail filter in Outlook 2003 isn't too bad if you keep it updated.

[pam123]

Does spamfigher work so I when I click on my e-mail account (OUTLOOK) I won't see any spam?

It's good but it's not that good.
What it will give you that the server- side filter won't is flexibility.
The reason I have a Hotmail account is beciase one day last year Verizon decided that all e-mail from Europe was spam and blocked it all.