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parp is a powerful, extensible e-mail filter with sophisticated anti-spam capabilities. Its made as a complete replacement for procmail, is MIME-aware, and acts as a filter, daemon, or on mailboxes. This was yet another personal itch which needed scratching. I receive between 5 and 20 spam e-mails most days. It wasnt only mildly annoying to have to hit delete more than normal, but I also forward all e-mail which ends up in my main inbox to my mobile (cell) phone via email2sms and an Internet/SMS gateway, and I was sick to death of my phone bleeping a lot through the day purely due to junk mail. I started looking at all the available anti-spam filters. Over a period of two years, I looked at many, including the NAGS filter, despam, various complex anti-spam procmailrcs, the spamometer, blackmail, filter.plx, zfilter, spamstop, junkfilter ... but various things put me off all of them: Some werent written in Perl. Call me a Perl bigot, but if there was ever a case of Perl being the right tool for the job, its an e-mail filter. Extensibility and maintainability were very high on my list. Some were terribly coded. I refuse to put my e-mail at the mercies of bad code (and that includes sendmail ;-). Some insisted that you use a particular MDA or MUA. I have no intentions of changing from mutt and qmail. Many filtered on only the headers, or only the body. I want to filter on both, not all the time, but in some circumstances. None were as accurate as I wanted. My goal was at least 99% accuracy. (At the time of writing, parps accuracy is hovering around the 99.8% mark.).
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Windows Software
Albina Merfyn - I find this to be really easy to use. I can...
