Mozilla and the stand-alone Thunderbird: e-mail programs (“clients”) with a Bayesian filter, i.e. a filter that keeps learning and is therefore able to adapt to the constantly changing forms of spam
Disposable e-mail accounts, various types for registering on web sites etc.
E4ward.com You can use your own domain name or e4ward.com for your aliases
Sneakemail original disposable email address service
Spamgourmet expire after a number of emails, but can be reset or ignored for some senders
Jetable expiring in 1-8 days
Mailinator instant email accounts, self-destructing email after you read it.
shortMail.net expiring email forwarding accounts, and instant anonymous online email
SpamDay allows you to create forward addresses and webmail addresses, valid for 24 hours. Support for RSS feed!
SpamMotel Use it whenever you are required to give out your e-mail address on the internet.
ipoo.org Signups without spam. Fast, no ads. Includes RSS to check your SPAM inbox.
Tools to filter out spam
Bogofilter Statistical filter (not strictly Bayesian)
Firetrust MailWasher Pro. Removes spam while it is still on your POP3 server.
Hexamail Guard – Anti-spam gateway software
iMailLight smart plugin for Outlook, based on Bayesian filtering
SpamAssassin heuristic filter
CRM114 Uses a hidden Markov model to classify spam
SpamBayes Bayesian filter using ideas improving Paul Graham’s ideas.
Spamihilator Free antispam program with a good-working bayesan filter and a lot of other filters plugins. It works with almost all email program.
SpamPal Free Windows filter with lots of filtering methods. Client or server-side filtering.
TMDA, a challenge/response system
trimMail Inbox – Anti-spam firewall
Checksum-based filter:
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse
Vipul’s razor
Tools to filter out viruses
Clam antivirus
Contact forms that hide email addresses
Contact Form – Open source (GPL) – Requires a webserver, Perl, and Sendmail
form2mail – Open source (GPL) – Requires a webserver, PHP, MySQL, and SendMail
MailWebForm Open source (GPL)- Requires Java, Java Servlets, and Java Mail
SCForm – Open source (GPL) – Requires a websever, PHP and Sendmail
Other tools
Sam Spade program with tools
SpamCop a place to report spam
Services which guarantee messages as not being spam:
Habeas Sender Warranted Email
Bonded Sender
Making it harder to harvest e-mail addresses
Project Honey Pot
address-protector.com A service to protect email addresses with image and audio captchas
SpamFreeze allows users to post a URL online instead of their email address
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