Useful Spam and Mail.app related Links

• JunkMatcher and other tools for Mail.app:
  
  
  • Original post announcing JunkMatcher at Mac OS X Hints.
  • JunkMatcher's page at Apple.com.
  • JunkMatcher's page at VersionTracker.com.
  • Discussion forums and mailing lists for JunkMatcher.
  • Mail.app plugs and suggestions: this site has a comprehensive list of plugins that are designed for Mail.app. They also maintain a list of suggestions to improve Mail.app.
• General links on email and spam:
  
  
  • A Plan for Spam: Paul Graham's excellent article about spam and spam-filtering.
  • Blacklists compared: Jeff Makey's very useful and up-to-date (updated almost every week) comparisons of many public-domain blacklists.
  • How ip4r (DNSBL-style) DNS lookups work: this is for more technical-inclined readers - explaining how DNS-based "email blacklists" work.
  • Internet Privacy for Dummies: good and easy-to-follow tutorials on spam and how to fight it.
  • List of All Known DNS-based Spam Databases: a comprehensive and up-to-date list of free "email blacklists" services (SpamCop.net is just one of them).
  • MacDevCenter.com: Building Your Personal Anti-Spam Strategy: offers some useful tips such as how to prevent spambots from harvesting your email address on your website.
  • Reading Email Headers: very useful and comprehensive guide to email headers.
  • spam.abuse.net: a comprehensive site collecting various information about spam.
  • SpamCop: one of the most authoritative spam reporting/email blacklists service.
  • Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail by Joe Kissell: a comprehensive, accurate and very useful eBook about fighting spam with Apple Mail.app.
  • The Fight against Spam (part I, II, and III): Excellent articles by François Joseph de Kermadec (especially written for Mac users) on MacDevcenter.com.
  • Why Am I Getting All This Spam? Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Research Six Month Report: very comprehensive experiments done on the effect of posting/encoding/removing email addresses on/from public places (websites, newsgroups, etc.); statistics were collected over 6-month period.

© Benjamin Han (email), Sourceforge.net. Last updated on Sunday, April 23, 2006