Email Clients Watch » Spam Blockers http://www.emailclients.net/blog News about email clients Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:34:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 SpamExperts http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/155 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/155#comments Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:48:02 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=155 SpamExperts Home is a free spam filter that works with any email program and automatically filters your mail and intercepts spam whenever you download your email. Even though it does require an initial training phase (you need to tell the software which messages are good and which are spam), it does not rely on keyword lists to detect spam, but automatically learns from the content of the messages that you accept or reject within about 14 days. The email that is identified as spam is either blocked and/or marked in the subject line. SpamExperts Home can also check your email periodically and filter spam in the background, and maintain a list of blocked and allowed senders. Documentation is limited and mostly provide via mouseover hints.

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]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/155/feed 0 SpamExperts Home http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/140 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/140#comments Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:14:50 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=140 SpamExperts Home is freeware spam filter that works with any email program and automatically filters your mail and intercepts spam whenever you download your email. Even though it does require an initial training phase, it does not rely on keyword lists to detect spam, but automatically learns from the content of the messages that you accept or reject within about 14 days. The email that is identified as spam is either blocked and/or marked in the subject line. SpamExperts Home can also check your email periodically and filter spam in the background, and maintain a list of blocked and allowed senders.

]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/140/feed 0 SpamScreener Free Edition http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/136 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/136#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:23:26 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=136 SpamScreener is a challenge/response anti-spam system that shields your Inbox from spam and other unsolicited email by requesting a confirmation reply from every unapproved sender. The sender only has to confirm an email once, and can be automatically added to a list of approved senders.

SpamScreener can also use your existing Outlook address book and approve all email that comes from one of your contacts, so that existing contacts do not even have to go through the approval process at all. The program checks the mail in your POP account every X minutes. You can review a list of pending approvals, preview the messages, and also manually approve any sender. If the unknown sender did not respond to the challenge email, the message can be automatically deleted. The program is easy to use requires very little configuration.

SpamScreener Free Edition is limited to protecting a single email account, and does not allow you to customize the challenge message.

If you are looking for a challenge/response email service, checkout Bluebottle

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]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/136/feed 0 Iconix eMail ID – verify email senders http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/135 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/135#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:18:51 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=135 Iconix eMail ID is a client application that verifies the sender of an incoming email, and guarantees that the mail is actually coming from the company that it claims. The service only works with companies that have registered with Iconix, which currently includes more than 300 companies such as eBay, PayPal, Citibank, Amazon.com, Expedia, and many others.

Whenever an email arrives from one of the known senders, it is authenticated, and an icon displayed next to the message that indicates the validity of the mail. It only works with the major web based email services (Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail) and in addition requires that you use Internet Explorer to read your mail. Once Iconix is installed on your computer, it will automatically verify email messages whenever you use any of the supported services, there is no interface or additional configuration required.

If you use free web mail and Internet Explorer, and are concerned about phishing scams involving major companies, give this software a try. Even though it is still limited in usability, the validation integrates flawlessly with the supported services.

]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/135/feed 0 GFI MailEssentials http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/123 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/123#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:06:48 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=123 GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP is a server based anti spam & email management solution for Microsoft Exchange Server & Notes/SMTP servers. Spam is caught before it gets to the mail server, no need to deploy client software. Its advanced Spam detection technology is based on: Content checking of body and subject for spam keywords, checking mail headers for typical spam practices, and checking if the sending mail server is on a third part black list such as ORDB. Admins can also set-up their own blacklists, as well as reduce false positives using the automatic whitelist feature. The program also features disclaimers, mail monitoring of particular email addresses, centralized mail archiving to database, mail reporting (e.g., top mail users), POP3 downloading and auto replies with variables/fields. The anti spam DNS blacklists checking (ORDBC etc.), custom blacklist and automatic whitelist modules are freeware and will not time out after evaluation has ended.

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]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/123/feed 0 Spam Reader http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/122 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/122#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:04:07 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=122 Spam Reader is a powerful anti-spam filter for Microsoft Outlook combining ease-of-use and a high degree of protection against unsolicited emails. A Bayesian algorithm based on statistical analysis detects up to 98% of spam messages. Spam Reader is easily integrated into Microsoft Outlook and needs no additional adjustments. It starts working immediately after the installation.

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]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/122/feed 0 Mail Box Dispatcher 2.30 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/112 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/112#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:06:58 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=112 Mail Box Dispatcher is a spam blocker tool that allows to preview and preprocess messages before they will be received by your e-mail program.

Mail Box Dispatcher is now fully free, both for non-commercial and commercial use.

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]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/112/feed 0 MailScanner 4.49.7 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/109 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/109#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:34:27 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=109 MailScanner 4.49.7 is now available. Major speed improvements for sendmail, Postfix and Exim systems. Various other new features to make filename and filetype traps easier to implement, easy monitoring of activity by changing “ps” output during message processing, among other things.

]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/109/feed 0 SpamAware 4.2 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/93 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/93#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2005 13:54:23 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=93 SpamAware is a plugin for Ms-Outlook and MS-Outlook Express. It uses SpamAssassin to score new incomming mails and decides based on the settings made in options what to do with the mail. It contacts through SpamAssassin several spam servers to be more efficient. The application is completely functional after installation and gets automatically active on new mails. It supports Black and Whitelist filtering and is able to automatically add all your Outlook and Outlook Express contacts and add recipients of mails you write to the Whitelist.

]]> http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/93/feed 0 Spam Reader 2.0 Release http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/81 http://www.emailclients.net/blog/posts/81#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2005 20:22:29 +0000 Administrator http://www.emailclients.net/blog/?p=81 New version of Spam Reader includes self-training Bayesian spam filtering algorithm, Microsoft Exchange support, managed coordination with Outlook Rules, enhanced White and Black Lists management, custom criteria for spam detection, and automatic news and mailing lists recognition.

Spam Reader 2.0 is a powerful anti-spam filter for Microsoft Outlook combining ease-of-use and a high degree of protection against unsolicited emails.

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