Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Sun, 25 May 2003

Web-based e-mail reader that blocks spam?

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Here's a question for the readership of this weblog -- does anybody know of a web-based e-mail reader (like Mail2Web, MailStart, and the many listed here) that blocks spam, maybe the way that Yahoo! Mail does?

I'm about to hit the road for a while, and I've grown accustomed to Apple Mail's spam filters, which catch maybe 90% of incoming spam. Using Web-based mail readers, the amount of spam is intolerable, but it could be kept in check if the system had a filter like SpamAssassin installed.....

(Yes, I know you can install filters like SpamAssassin on the mail host; but I haven't been able to accomplish that [yet]. If anybody has any suggestions, drop me a line -- mailto link is at the bottom of the page and I'll post any good answers; I don't have comments set up on this weblog yet.....)

Update: Martin recommended FastMail; Sam recommended SquirrelMail -- though SquirrelMail is something you install on your own server. Thanks!