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Spam filters help reduce junks, spammed or unwanted emails to flow into your inbox and make it cleaner and easier to check your mails. While there're many spam filter products available, frankly, either most free spam filters are much too complex to set up and use, or in fact, the better products in this class are not free. That said, I review some free options here that are good and suitable for average users. |
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At the Mailwasher site you can download a free or commercial Pro version. The former lacks quite a few of the features of its commercial cousin, the most limiting of which is the ability to access multiple accounts. However, the last free version of MailWasher (before it became a commercial product) is still floating around the web, and it will handle multiple accounts. It also lacks many of the advanced spam-detection features of the current commercial version, but is still very effective. |
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Alternatively, try xTerminator, which works in much the same way as MailWasher, and is totally free. I must say, though, that I prefer MailWasher's user interface. Further, this program is no longer supported by the developer, but the program can be downloaded from other web sites. |
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Like all network-based spam filters, it requires no training; it's ready to go the minute you install it. Each email is checked after it is received. If the email has been classified as spam by a lot of other users on the network, then it's deleted from your in-box and placed in a spam mail folder. It works like a charm and is a commanding choice for Outlook users. If you can't tolerate the ads in your email, you can have them removed for $19.95 a year. |
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Hi everyone,
I have been using Mailwasher 2.0.28 beta for years and did not have any problem with it
It manages multiple accounts (I have 8 of them on 4 different suppliers) even web mail like yahoo, but I did not succeed in accessing my Gmail account.
Sometimes (once every 3 months or so) it suddenly freezes, I just terminate it thru task manager and restart it from my quick launch bar, and this is it, no data is lost.
I suppose I'm a bit late here, but i'd like to answer to Denis ("If you use a free web mail account like hotmail or yahoo mail you cannot use them with an email client such as outlook or thunderbird").
Denis, you have been mistaken, my Outlook (2002) is capable or managing yahoo mail and Gmail (hotmail also I think), incoming and outgoing (you send your mail in Outlook using your Gmail account) BUT for this to work you have to change the settings in the web mail account. there you will find the needed settings for Outlook/Outlook express/etc.
hope this helps
I have used MailWasher Free for many months, its great whilst it works. I find that I am just getting a good lot of statistic when it stops functioning. When I re-install the program the statistic have all reverted to zero and I start to await the next "forced to " re-install. Any similar experiences? Any recommendations for a similar program that will continue to perform?
I had used free Mailwasher for years, accepting that it crashing and burned for various reasons. I've finally found a great free solution PopPeeper. A funky name but it works great www.poppeeper.com. So good, I was happy to donate to the cause.
I think I have tried so many anti-spam software to literally become dizzy. But finally, I settled on this one as it has proved to be solid and reliable. I always run it before running my main email client and so only the good stuff is downloaded. No more waste of time downloading junk. This freeware lets me conveniantly delete spam emails ON THE SERVER and so nothing is downloaded to my mail client without a first "pass" with Junkanoo. You can configure multiple accounts including gMail accounts. Works like a charm!
JUNKANOO
http://www.kidmoses.com/junkanoo/index.html
spamfighter now works with thunderbird.works great!
I just use www.bluebottle.com or www.inbox.com, which uses a slick white/black list. I go online and check my "Pending" or "Unverfied" folder every few days for safeties safety's sake. The nice thing is that when I use their SMTP server and send thought it, all my contacts are then automatically whitelisted. So in the intitual stages if you want to whitelist everyone real quite then just send everyone a quick note with your new email address. Bingo, they are all in. Then you only need to check your Pending foler periodically. So far, fingers crossed, it has been 3 years and I haven't seen a single spam get through. Bluebottle costs $10 per year while Inbox is still free, as well as offereing 2GB of free online storage to the world and 5GB storage to residents of North America.
Comodo's anti-spam product is becoming increasingly interesting... especially now that it's Vista compatible.
http://www.comodoantispam.com/
Worth a look.
I have tried all the favorites like Spamihilator and SPAM Fighter but they never really worked for me. Plus the advertisement emails kept on getting worse. I did come across a spam blocker for Outlook called "Spam Free Outlook Beta FREE" and I must say that this little add-on is impressive. You will start off teaching it what a legitimate email is and what is spam and the program will learn patterns and then will automatically run. For me it has been 100% accurate on the proper filtering. Zero misses...Impressive.
http://www.codeode.com/outlook-spam/index.html
Best of all use Gmail configured to use their pop3 & SMTP servers from your own mail client.
Result - 99.9% of spam is detected by Gmail and stuffed straight into their junk mail, so it never gets downloaded!
MailWasher 1.33 doesn't install properly under Win XP SP3. Fortunately, a more recent freeware version is available elsewhere:
http://digidownload[dot]libero[dot]it/molearchive3/mailwasher2b28.zip
It's v. 2.0.28Beta and it works very well. It's possible to find it in other Internet places.
What about SpamAssassin? Are these others that you guys mention header filters, or do they download the whole mail? Anything that can integrate/work with thunderbird?
I had free mailwasher and it worked well before we changed our internet server to Time Warner (roadrunner). Our new email address with TW is plasko@roadrunner.com The old defunct email address was dorolas@verizon.net
I am not able to use mailwasher and I wonder if I incorrectly put our new email address in. It should be plasko@roadrunner.com
Please Note:
If you use a free web mail account like hotmail or yahoo mail you cannot use them with an email client such as outlook or thunderbird.
Hence any spam filter mentioned above will not work. You have to use the filters supplied by hotmail / yahoo etc and set those up in your web browser.
There are services available to view web mail in an POP3 email client on your computer but these are not covered in this category.
I apologise for any misunderstanding caused.
SpamPal is my personal favorite. Uses multiple blacklists to filter email.
http://www.spampal.org/
Spamihilator is the one I keep coming back to as it filter emails before they get into your client. It is easy to set up and very easy to add key spam words and regular expressions (there are a few examples)
http://www.spamihilator.com/
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