Originally Posted by holland
I used the Cloudmark since it's early betas, and liked it. The only thing I didn't like was that downloads would take forever, since each message has to be checked against their servers (so you get a ton of network connections firing off while you download mail).
Spambayes is a much better filter, IMHO. I get fewer false positives, and have only gotten 2 "good" messages it thought might be spam in the last 6 months...averaging 1800-2200 spams per month.
http://www.spambayes.org/
It helps if you have some old spam laying around to train it.
I thought once you 'trained' CloudMark/SpamNet it would require less and less connection to their server(s). Is this not the case...? If not, doesnt this feature render this anti-spam software useless unless you have a broadband connection?