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Thank you everyone for the replies. I think I'll give SpamPal a try. SpamCombat & SpamAssassin are fine products, I'm sure, but I really like the FAQs, setup help (forums) that SpamPal offers. FYI, Features chart for SpamPal and some of its major competitors, such as: K9 POPFile SpamAssassin SAProxy Spamihilator SpamKiller AntiSpamWare SpamNet MailWasher Free MailWasher Pro G-Lock's SpamCombat may be too new because they're not in the comparison chart. Last, but not least, to whoisjohngalt: It's very refreshing to see (meet - ?) another Ayn Rand devotee. I wish there were more. Good sig, too! Thumbs Up

Hi, I have just had a new tower built running XP Pro and Outlook XP (2003). I have been using web-based Yahoo! Mail for some years now but with the new system I plan to use YahooPOPs! (YP), which emulates a POP3/SMTP server and enables popular email clients like Outlook to download and send emails from [web-based] Yahoo! accounts. Now that YahooPOPs! is up and running I need to decide on which spam filtering software to use. The leading contenders are SpamAssassin and SpamCombat (from G-Lock). At this time I am leaning towards SpamAssassin because they seem to be the actual innovators and developers of this kind of filter while G-Lock appears to have "borrowed" quite a bit of SA's technology. I could very well be wrong but that is how I feel. The only "problem" that I am finding with SpamAssassin is that it typically "resides" on an ISP's server. As I plan to switch to a low-cost ISP that does not use SA I'm hoping to do a lot of research on how it actually works, which is where the TotalChoice Hosting Forums come into play. I have done a fair amount of browsing at the SpamAssassin News site (link is for their Downloads page) and I'm still not sure which version I should use. I would love to ask this question and many others at a forum site that is devoted to SpamAssassin (and preferably "newbie-tolerant") but I cannot seem to find a site that covers SA and is not geared towards techies (Website Administrators, etc.). I have already read through the 3 threads in the Backend Services Forum that address some aspects of SpamAssassin but I have yet to find a good overall "tutorial" for end-users who are not Administors. The people at TotalChoice seem to be very friendly and willing to help out others who are stumped by a problem such as mine. I am hoping that someone can either refer me to a good resource for learning and using SpamAssassin or explain the necessary requirements. I am quite willing to learn and I am capable of "taking the ball and running with it" once the ball has been tossed my way. I appreciate your taking the time to read this. Thank you. Thumbs Up