After my post on Spam Sieve, an excellent Mac-based email filter, I asked three Windows users whose opinion I respect–except for the fact that they’re Windows users–on what they recommend for keeping spam at bay.
One said he didn’t need to worry about spam at the office because they use appriver which blocks spam before it reaches him.
The second uses MailWasher – The Reliable Free Spam Blocker, which works directly with your server. In this way, like appriver, you never even receive the email. (The downside of this of course is that you may never see an email from an old college buddy who you haven’t heard from for years. Of course, he’s probably just contacting you because you owe him money, anyway.)
The third uses Thunderbird, an email application from the people who brought you Firefox.
If you’re a Windows user and you have a program you like, let us know.
Rich Brooks
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I use MS Outlook and rules in it. I have done a rule to all incoming emails and it checks wether the sender is in my addressbook or not.
Emails that are not is marked as read and deleted. I'm using imap so the email will not be deleted copletely from server it is just marked as deleted. Ofcourse i need to go thru deleted emails to see if there is emails where the sender is not in addressbook. If there is such posts I undelete the post and add email to addressbook. Rest I purge from the server.
The same can also be aplied to pop box. Instead of delete, the filtered emails can for example be trasfered to spam box.
I've been a MailWasher user for a little over 2 years and am glad I have it.
I love being able to go thru and check my emails before they're trashed, mark 'em as spam or friend and have it remember my decision.
I wouldn't be without it, as I have 14 blogs and 32 sites that forward to my personal email addy. That's over 300 per day to filter and it does a fantastic job.
I use Vanquish Labs, vqME. My nine or so email addresses are forwarded to vqME and the one that will not forward I have vqME check several times a day. My inbox is 100% mail I want. Held mail on their servers, but after a short while you take their advice and never, ever check it. Anyone human being can reach me by answering the email vqME sends back to them if they are not in my address book.
When you set it up, you go to each email address and take off everyone's filters. Comcast warned me twice not to turn off their filters, but they were losing my mail. Vanquish takes care of it before it gets to me.
They allow email from a website I visit for a period of time. Since all my email addresses go to vqME I use their web mail on the road or from my notebook.
I was borderline suicidal over spam and lost mail and having to read held mail I didn't want to even glance at. It made me crazy.
Ok, I get one spam message a month sometimes. I found vqME at download.com in a moment of desperation. I paid them on the first day of 15 day free trial when I saw how it worked.