OT: in search of a spam-filtering mailhost

[baldyeti]

My email address seems to have turned into a spam trap, lately.
As I am pretty sure some of you know the feeling, I thought I'd ask
if you had a free or cheap online filtering service to recommend.
I have been using SpamAssasin and lately MozillaMail, which both do a
reasonable job.

But these are client-side solutions, so if I stop reading my
mail for say a week because I am on holidays, chances
are spam will overflow my mailbox, and block legitimate
messages. An ideal solution would be a filter running on a host
with a web front-end allowing me to review the suspect emails
for a week or so. Possibilities to adjust the spam threshold and
edit one's whitelist (if SpamAssassin is used) would be handy as well.

Actually, www.oddpost.com looks almost ideal, except it supports IE,
hence Windows only. Thanks for sharing your experience if you have
found such a service and are happy with it.

[turbine]

Howdy. The best span filtering that I've found lies right at the ISP. I use earthlink and they have 3 levels of filtering for each mailbox. I have 8 of them and I used to get overwhelmed with spam. When you set the highest level, only email that you specifically allow will get through to your machine. Earthlink will send you a spam summary each week and you can easily pick and choose which mail you want to have delivered.

[garyng]

This may sound irrelavent but have you thought about 'renting' the VPS stuff which is getting more popular and cheaper now, as a linux user. That way, one has his own virtual server, ip, domain and can install any spam killer and other stuff.