File Details |
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| File Size | 0.1 MB |
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| License | Freeware |
| Operating System | Windows 2000/9x/Server 2003/XP |
| Date Added | April 18, 2004 |
| Total Downloads | 5,475 |
| Publisher | Robin Keir |
| Homepage | K9 |
Publisher's Description
K9 is an email filtering application that works in conjunction with your regular POP3 email program and automatically classifies incoming emails as Spam or non-spam without the need for maintaining dozens of rules or constant updates to be downloaded. It learns over time and becomes better and better at being able to correctly identify spam. It learns to recognize what you consider to be spam.
Latest Reviews
junkcatcher reviewed v1.28 on Apr 10, 2011
I have used this program for quite a few years it is by far the best spam filter around especially if the "use black hole" option is invoke.
However it badly needs updated and modernised to self-install on Thunderbird.
It will work with Thunderbird but setting it up is a bit fiddly.
pgrashof reviewed v1.28 on Oct 22, 2005
I've been using this software for at least a year or so, and never felt the need for alternatives. It's free, uses low resources, has no annoying popups, spyware or whatever.
You need to train K9, but then it works! And the side effect, the number of spam I receive on a daily basis has dropped substantially. It would be cool if it could also check hotmail and some other web based mail accounts, but, everything in there is spam anyway, need no filter for that :-)
httpd.confused reviewed v1.28 on Feb 22, 2005
This is a nice Bayesian application, but Bayesian filters literally do more harm than good these days, in my experience.
beast64 reviewed v1.26 on Sep 25, 2004
Well, this is by far the best anti-spam program I ever used, and here's why:
* Nice, easy-to-use, and user-friendly GUI.
* It's a very small yet powerfull app.
* It consumes little memory.
* It's smart, it learns from its mistakes.
* It actually caches spam not pretend to do.
* It's easy to use and configure.
* It's FREE.
I've been using for about two weeks and it was sluggish at first but now its accuracy rose to aprox 99%, after I trained it a little it became quite smart and didn't make any mistake since then. So by all means, get this app NOW!!
klumy reviewed v1.26 on Feb 9, 2004
Excellent program !!
baarsel reviewed v1.25 on Feb 1, 2004
Sorry, forgot the final figures: over a period of 19 days the accuracy is 94.8%. Over the last three days the accuracy is 100%, with over 80 messages processed!
BoNeLeSS reviewed v1.18 on Dec 15, 2003
After a short training this little app is giving me *excellent* performance. With 99,5% precision in spam detection I can't find out a better anti-spam solution.
scodan reviewed v1.13 on Sep 1, 2003
Wow, only 3 legitimate email messages out of 784 total were incorrectly flagged as spam? What if one of those messages had to do with a job you were applying for? Or an important personal message? Are you going to lose it?
No, because you will manually sift through all the "spam" messages anyway. Which calls into question the whole point of running this sort of software. Does it just let you postpone the sifting? No, because an important, time-sensitive misfiled message needs immediate attention.
gerryf reviewed v1.10 on Aug 7, 2003
784 emails in the last 3 weeks, 524 good, 261 spam, with only 3 good mistaken for spam, and 37 spam mistaken for good
That gives me 0.4% false positives, which is very safe, and 4.7% false negatives.
Overall, 94.9% effective which is darn solid. Best spam detector so far. Love it
kaweka reviewed v1.09 on Jul 18, 2003
Impressive, very small and efficient.
junkcatcher reviewed v1.28 on Apr 10, 2011
I have used this program for quite a few years it is by far the best spam filter around especially if the "use black hole" option is invoke.
However it badly needs updated and modernised to self-install on Thunderbird.
It will work with Thunderbird but setting it up is a bit fiddly.
pgrashof reviewed v1.28 on Oct 22, 2005
I've been using this software for at least a year or so, and never felt the need for alternatives. It's free, uses low resources, has no annoying popups, spyware or whatever.
You need to train K9, but then it works! And the side effect, the number of spam I receive on a daily basis has dropped substantially. It would be cool if it could also check hotmail and some other web based mail accounts, but, everything in there is spam anyway, need no filter for that :-)
httpd.confused reviewed v1.28 on Feb 22, 2005
This is a nice Bayesian application, but Bayesian filters literally do more harm than good these days, in my experience.
beast64 reviewed v1.26 on Sep 25, 2004
Well, this is by far the best anti-spam program I ever used, and here's why:
* Nice, easy-to-use, and user-friendly GUI.
* It's a very small yet powerfull app.
* It consumes little memory.
* It's smart, it learns from its mistakes.
* It actually caches spam not pretend to do.
* It's easy to use and configure.
* It's FREE.
I've been using for about two weeks and it was sluggish at first but now its accuracy rose to aprox 99%, after I trained it a little it became quite smart and didn't make any mistake since then. So by all means, get this app NOW!!
klumy reviewed v1.26 on Feb 9, 2004
Excellent program !!
baarsel reviewed v1.25 on Feb 1, 2004
Sorry, forgot the final figures: over a period of 19 days the accuracy is 94.8%. Over the last three days the accuracy is 100%, with over 80 messages processed!
BoNeLeSS reviewed v1.18 on Dec 15, 2003
After a short training this little app is giving me *excellent* performance. With 99,5% precision in spam detection I can't find out a better anti-spam solution.
scodan reviewed v1.13 on Sep 1, 2003
Wow, only 3 legitimate email messages out of 784 total were incorrectly flagged as spam? What if one of those messages had to do with a job you were applying for? Or an important personal message? Are you going to lose it?
No, because you will manually sift through all the "spam" messages anyway. Which calls into question the whole point of running this sort of software. Does it just let you postpone the sifting? No, because an important, time-sensitive misfiled message needs immediate attention.
gerryf reviewed v1.10 on Aug 7, 2003
784 emails in the last 3 weeks, 524 good, 261 spam, with only 3 good mistaken for spam, and 37 spam mistaken for good
That gives me 0.4% false positives, which is very safe, and 4.7% false negatives.
Overall, 94.9% effective which is darn solid. Best spam detector so far. Love it
kaweka reviewed v1.09 on Jul 18, 2003
Impressive, very small and efficient.
klumy reviewed v1.08 on Jul 5, 2003
Very nice ;)
Xhargh reviewed v1.08 on Jul 5, 2003
asaens: Check this out: http://keir.net/k9_history.html
The author does write on his page what the changes are.
Statistics so far (I've used the program for 76 days)
1727 mails in total
280 good emails
1447 spam emails
Overall accuracy: 99.7%
asaenz reviewed v1.08 on Jul 5, 2003
My 3rd/4th week trying this program and it 'seems' to be getting better at catching blacklisted spam. I just wish the author would indicate the changes from one version to the next either here or on his site (the site lists the versions but I can't find changes, additions, removals, etc..) Would be an improvement if you could add some sites like DNS blacklist servers -- maybe a future version. Also, needs to watch for identical records to avoid filling the database with duplicate records -- maybe an indexing scheme.
RAT reviewed v1.0 on Apr 22, 2003
Impressive!!!!
Bokijana reviewed vRelease Candidate 3 on Apr 18, 2003
Very Good
hvs reviewed vRelease Candidate 2 on Apr 13, 2003
Love it. Works right from the start. Filters 95% of my spam even without feeding the database!
Grandpas reviewed vRelease Candidate 2 on Apr 12, 2003
I like this program for this 'transparency'. I mean that we can set our mailer to check the pop server through K9 transparently. I'm a user of Mailwasher: MWasher is very very efficient for the spam detection. However, it can not removes/bounces automatically the spams detected (excepted if the email sender is already blacklisted). In the other end, we have to delete SPAMS manually from mailwasher or they will reach our mailer. K9 has an option to mark automatically a mail as SPAM which then can be sorted/deleted in our usual mailer (mine is Minotaur which has also an efficient junk mail system). So this is a great great feature compared to Mailwasher. I give it only 4 because I've not tested the efficiency of the SPAM detection. Note that a RC3 is actually available.
sorty reviewed vRelease Candidate 2 on Apr 12, 2003
Seems like a good concept, but it doesn't seem to support APOP or other secure connections.
Cormac reviewed vRelease Candidate 2 on Apr 12, 2003
But please give us an option to disable those ugly, ugly toolbaricons and to change that ugly, ugly trayicon.
Xhargh reviewed vBeta 21 on Apr 7, 2003
I've tried this program (version RC1 and RC2) now for about a week. I fed the AI in the program with about 800 good mails and about 250 spam mails. Since I did that, K9 has made the correct assumtion about every (so far 84) incoming mails.
I'm impressed!
BNuser reviewed vBeta 2 on Feb 18, 2003
Even in this short time of useage I can surely say it has replaced my pop3proxy/spamassassin combination, by:
1. beeing only one application instead of 2.
2. a better integration into my e-mail client (the bat).
3. better maintenance.
The concept (look at the homepage) is promising and IMHO more futureproof than my old setup. It gets better every time you feed it with spam, without updating from other sites due to it's "AI". Recommended.