Novel Survey on Email Spam Filtering Methods

Abstract

Spam emails are causing major resource wastage by unnecessarily flooding the network links.The cost of spam is borne mostly by the recipient, so it is a form of postage due advertising. This paper describes how different methods can be used for spam filtering.To protect against unsolicited e-mails there are number of techniques presented with goal of efficient, accurate spam filtering. Few previous spam filters can meet the requirements of being user-friendly, attack-resilient, and personalized. This paper presents a literature survey into the state of research on spam filtering methods and how it is useful for user’s lives.