There's nothing more annoying than your personal inbox getting filled with spam trying to sell you viagra, financial services and all manner of other things you don't want.

Mailwasher Free is an easy solution for those that want to try and stop the avalanche of spam that may be clogging your inbox. These programs can be hard to setup but Mailwasher is refreshingly free of jargon and will help you get setup on just about any mail client in a matter of seconds. The program has even received glowing write ups by the BBC and CNN so you know you're getting something pretty decent here. Mailwasher has a clever preview utility which allows you to preview spam before downloading it onto your desktop - this is especially useful if it's malicious mail that could do damage to your hard drive. You can customise it to make it more sensitive to your needs too such as by adding friends to your contact list and also instructing it to bounce suspicious mail back to the sender. This is particularly useful as it will make the sender think your address is no longer active so your name is removed from their list meaning they won't be bothering you again.

A very simple but highly effective and powerful spam management tool that makes sure your inbox stays junk free.

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Spamihilator works between your E-Mail client and the Internet and examines every incoming E-Mail. Useless spam mails (Junk) will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background.

The new Learning Filter (Bayesian Filter) uses the rules of Thomas Bayes (English mathematician, 18th century) and calculates a certain Spam-Probability for every E-Mail. You can train this filter! So it will know your messages even better than you. Hence the recognition rate will continuously increase.

In addition Spamihilator uses a Word-Filter, that searches messages for known keywords. Of course, Spamihilator supports Plugins. These useful additional filters protect your system against annoying spam mails.

The program works with almost every E-Mail client, such as Outlook 2000/XP/2003/Express, Eudora, Mozilla, Netscape, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail, Opera, etc...

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This application is designed to help you rid yourself of annoying spam emails. Once you tell SpamEater Pro where your ISP's mail server is, and your login information, the program will connect with the server, either on a timed basis, or manually, and check the messages on the server for spam, removing any found and, optionally, archiving locally.

There are a number of fully configurable checks that are performed on the messages. These range from checks to see if the message is from one of your defined Approved Senders, a blocked sender, from a blocked country code, or checking to see if the server that delivered the message is in one of any number of internet blacklist databases.

Highlights of the package include:

Powerful filtering

SpamEater Pro includes a powerful and flexible set of filter rules to help block even the most persistent spammers. There's even a user friendly interface for you to enter your own rules to the many that come with SpamEater Pro. You can filter by message subject, header fields, bodies, blocked senders, message sizes, country codes (NEW in v4.0), and more.

SPF (Sender Policy Framework)

SPF is a means that domain owners can use to tell the rest of the mail servers on the Internet which servers are authorized to send mail for a specific domain. SpamEater Pro can check this, on domains that are using it, to be sure the message is not forged as being from such domains.

Approved senders:

Set up a list of your friends email addresses and SpamEater Pro will always accept their messages. You can even import these addresses from your supported Address Book - from clients such as Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape, and Eudora.

Real-time internet blacklist support

There are a number of dynamic Blacklists available today on the internet, containing dynamic lists of known spammers, spam-friendly ISPs, dial-up users, open relays, etc. SpamEater Pro can query its set of default databases in real-time and you can add more as desired - there's no limit to the number allowed.

ISP support

SpamEater Pro supports the majority of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with support for the standard POP3 and SMTP protocols. SpamEater Pro now also supports the secure encrypted SSL versions of these standard protocols with POP3S and SMTPS support.

Flexible scheduled checks

With SpamEater Pro 4.0, you can now set the same or separate schedules for automated checks. With these automated checks, your mailbox should stay free of spam with no effort on your part.

Local message archive

You can tell SpamEater Pro to download a copy of all rejected messages, on an account by account basis, and store them locally for later review. Messages in these archives can then be deleted, copied-n-pasted to SpamCop web form for complaint generation, bounced (NEW in v4.0), or recovered.

Network support

SpamEater Pro supports all network connection types to the internet and any other TCP/IP network. If you can successfully connect to the internet or your TCP/IP networks on your computer, then SpamEater Pro supports your connection.

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Antispam filter automatic intercepting e-mail before it reaches your POP3 or IMAP compatible e-mail client. New technologies to ensure optimal performance.Only limited initial training is required from the user. Easy to use interface. Now you can be simply Spam free

This is what SpamExperts has to offer:

• Automatic email interception
• Automatic email retrieval and notification
• Compatibility with all POP3&IMAP based email clients
• SSL support
• No spyware or adware

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SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server is the easy-to-use anti-spam solution for SMTP Servers. It protects all of your users from time consuming spam and is installed in minutes. SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server can coexist with your existing email solution on the same server, thus eliminating the need to invest in costly hardware and software licenses.

SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server is powered by millions of SPAMfighters from hundreds of countries/areas. If enough SPAMfighters report the same spam mail, it is instantly removed from all users. This means instant spam protection with no configuration or maintenance - perfect for businesses who want to get rid of spam but don't want any maintenance whatsoever.

The SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server makes a unique encrypted signature for each message and sends it to the SPAMfighter Server for evaluation. If the SPAMfighter Server determines that a message is spam, it notifies SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server and a user-defined action can be performed.

SPAMfighter SMTP Anti Spam Server also offers reporting, so administrators can review statistics on how many emails have been filtered, how many mailboxes are active, etc.

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Spam is one the most annoying plagues in today's technology world, along with other similar "diseases" such as spyware, viruses and the likes. Luckily there are also powerful tools to avoid them, like SPAMfighter.

This spam filtering utility is embedded as a new toolbar in your email client (namely Outlook Express or Microsoft Outlook, the two apps SPAMfighter works with) from where it analyzes every email message that enters the system in search of spam. If the message passes the filter, it'll appear in your inbox. If not, it usually ends up in the Spam folder – or the Unsure one if SPAMfigher is not sure whether the message is spam or not.

The filter used by SPAMfighter can be set to different sensitivity values, from very soft to very hard. Though the filter is not perfect and may put a legitimate message in the Spam folder from time to time, it's also being constantly improved with new spam messages and senders contributed by thousands of SPAMfighter users worldwide.

Eradicate spam from your inbox with a powerful filtering tool that learns from the experience of its own users.

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Despite the popularity of web-based email accounts, there are still people who use POP3 mailboxes and email clients such as Outlook Express. If you're one of them, keep on reading because you're going to love this app.

SpamBrave is a powerful antispam tool that sets a filter between your mailbox and the mail server, analyzing each message you download and throwing all the spam away so that it doesn't bother you anymore. Of course, the program's efficiency depends highly on its training, and training takes time. But this learning process has been automated to a certain extent, which means that fortunately you don't have to go over all of your messages one by one.

SpamBrave can take a look at your Outlook folders and learn from what you consider good and bad email messages. If you don't have enough of them, it'll learn from its embedded spam library. Plus you can also create "white" and "black" lists with your approved and banned senders, respectively.

The program is seamlessly integrated into the Outlook interface as a new toolbar and includes some configuration settings with which you can adapt it you your needs.

SpamBrave is a powerful spam filter for Outlook Express that, after some careful training, can help you get rid of those unwanted messages.

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Vade Retro for Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express filters up to 99% of spam, scam, phishing, spreading virus and bounce messages. The anti-spam toolbar is free and without obligation. The installation only takes a few seconds, then protection against spam will be active right away.

Unwanted messages are moved into folders of their own, for you to browse and/or remove at your convenience. Spam changes, so does the filter, which is constantly updated by the Vade Retro team at GOTO Software. Automatic update of the filter is subscription-based.

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Junk email is a major problem and there's hardly a mailbox anywhere that doesn't get some at one stage or another. According to the developers of MailWasher Pro, unwanted email or spam now forms around 90% of received email. MailWasher Pro lets you safely preview and delete bad email before it gets to your computer meaning if it doesn't contain anything harmful, it won't affect your computer.

MailWasher is very easy to use. The developers claim that they took the view that if you can't understand how to use a piece of software in under 5 minutes then it's probably always going to be hard to use. MailWasher Pro analyzes each email as it arrives and warns you if it is suspected junk mail or a virus. There's no real need for you to know this and it would have been better if they'd just blocked everything harmful full stop but at least you know.

The look and feel is like that of Outlook Express and it can be used with the former plus Outlook, Eudora, Netscape, Incredimail and several other major mail clients. This is a powerful program although unless you suffer from serious spam problems, it's not really worth the effort.

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Zaep Antispam can eliminate the time consuming job of sorting through intrusive spam email by blocking the spam from ever reaching your inbox. Zaep AntiSpam has many features that make it stand out.

New features include:

• Mail server plug-in support
• The ability to allow senders to reply to email messages
• Removing the requirement for a full time 24x7 Internet connection
• Added support for remote account configuration using Zaep Standard
• Added global white, wildcard white, black, wildcard black, and subject lists and more

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Call me ungrateful but I'm fed up with being offered millions of dollars by my distinguished Nigerian relatives or the inheritence of my dog's grandma's Indian cousin. In fact, I'm starting to question whether these guys are even genuine or not. If only I had a program that could weasel out junk mail from the real deal. Oh, hang on, here comes my download of Spam Monitor. Could this be the solution to my quandry?

The answer is yes, for this program is designed to help separate spam messages from genuine emails. It's great because it's aimed largely at non tech-savy users, providing a simple means of stubbing out spam before it reaches your inbox without you having to configure a number of elaborate email filters. There are three different configurations to choose from: Minimum, Normal or Aggressive. I would personally recommend to run it in Normal mode because I found Aggressive was a little too harsh, and marked a lot of my ordinary emails as spam, which is quite annoying. Nevertheless, you do get the option to whitelist certain email addresses or domains to allow them through in future.

Setting up the filters is a very straightforward process and there are plenty of tools bundled with Spam Monitor that can heighten its effectiveness. For instance, the program contains a useful option for blocking all mail from China, Taiwan and Korea, which, unless you have contacts in these places, is very handy because these countries are the source of a lot of junk mail. Although the app can't protect your Webmail, it supports a large range of POP clients, making it a fine tool for ridding your inbox of nonsense.

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POPFile is an automatic e-mail classification and spam-fighting tool that uses Bayesian mathematics to automagically filter e-mail into any number of categories. It works with all POP3-based e-mail and features a Web-based interface for administration. Version 0.21.2 includes a fix for a security flaw.

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Junkanoo sits between youy email server and client, acting as a filter for spam messages. It doesn't work in the usual way where you "train" the program according to the type of messages you receive. Instead of that, Junkanoo displays the messages still on your server and allows you to filter them before actually downloading them with your favorite email client.

The program marks messages as spam according to the most typical characteristics of this kind of messages: empty subject lines, links inside the message, strange characters, etc. However, it is you who has to manually mark each message as definitive spam or approve it to enter your inbox. Junkanoo also has support to create white and black lists for allowed and banned sender domains respectively.

Besides filtering spam in your mailbox, the program includes a small editor to send messages from Junkanoo, featuring also a spellchecker.

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Spam Terrier sits between your email server and your email client, working as a powerful filter to prevent all those spam messages from reaching your inbox. Although we didn't have the time to test it thoroughly (it would have taken days to check its accuracy) we certainly could see that this is a very polished and promising tool that can help you in your personal battle against unsolicited messages.

Spam Terrier is seamlessly integrated into your e-mail client as a toolbar from which you can mark messages as spam or non spam. The program does require some prior training but this can easily be done by means of a wizard and the messages you already have in your inbox. The program also enables you to create white and black lists (for approved and banned senders respectively) as well as decide what to do with spam messages.

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Is your e-mail address bombed by spammers or viruses? With the help of Junk Mail Remover you are able to delete all this junk email messages fast and easily. If your connection is slow (dial-up, GPRS, etc) or you have to pay for internet traffic, this program will save your time and money (and nerves therefore).

Junk Mail Remover connects to your mail server and downloads all headers or headers of large messages only. You can analyze message attributes (sender, recipient, subject, size) and decide which e-mails are needless.

Then you mark them for deletion and the program removes marked messages from mail server. Filters and SpamAssasin support can help to mark messages automatically. After this you can download remaining messages which are clear from viruses, huge attachments, and other junk.

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Everyone owning an email address knows these annoying mails you receive. The number of spam mails running around is continuously increasing so everyone has to spend more time on sorting out good mails from spam. Don't waste time on this let SpamAware do it for you! 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-server 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.

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End your spam nightmare and make email enjoyable again by keeping your Inbox free of annoying spam. Our intelligent spam filter for Outlook Express analyzes email so effectively that in many cases it is more accurate than filtering by hand. Easy to use!

Bayesian Spam Filter

Intelligently knows which emails you've received are good and which are spam by using artificial intelligence and server blacklists. Makes sure good emails make it to your Inbox.

Allow/Block List

Decide who and what makes it into your Inbox.

Punish and Report

Get back at spammers by increasing their costs, returning their spam, and reporting them to the servers they came from and the FTC. Email a special password to an unfamiliar sender that they must correctly type in before their email is allowed to your Inbox.

Auto-Delete

Optionally you can just delete spam messages instead of sorting them to a spam folder. You never have to see a spam message again.

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End your spam nightmare and make email enjoyable again by keeping your Inbox free of annoying spam. Our intelligent spam filter for Microsoft Outlook analyzes email so effectively that in many cases it is more accurate than filtering by hand. Easy to use!

Bayesian Spam Filter

Intelligently knows which emails you've received are good and which are spam by using artificial intelligence and server blacklists. Makes sure good emails make it to your Inbox.

Allow/Block List

Decide who and what makes it into your Inbox.

Punish and Report

Get back at spammers by increasing their costs, returning their spam, and reporting them to the servers they came from and the FTC. Email a special password to an unfamiliar sender that they must correctly type in before their email is allowed to your Inbox.

Auto-Delete

Optionally you can just delete spam messages instead of sorting them to a spam folder. You never have to see a spam message again.

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SpamAid 4.0 is an easy-to-use Microsoft Outlook add-on designed to provide an advanced protection against spam and unsolicited emails. The program uses Bayesian filtering technology that identifies about 98% of incoming spam messages.

SpamAid seamlessly integrates into the Microsoft Outlook workspace, scanning and quarantining away junk emails. Caught spam is placed in a special 'Spam' folder under your inbox if you ever want to review it later.

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SpamPal sits between your email program and your mailbox, checking your email as you retrieve it. Any email messages that SpamPal considers to be spam will be "tagged" with a special header; you simply configure your email client to filter anything with this header into a separate folder and your spam won't be mixed up with the rest of your email anymore!

But how does SpamPal know what is spam and what isn't? Well, it uses what are called DNSBL lists. Patterned after the famous MAPS RBL, these are lists of parts of the Internet that in one way or another facilitate spam. Any email you get from a machine on one of these lists has an increased probability of being spam. Some ISPs already block all email from machines on some of these DNSBL lists, but many do not. This is where SpamPal comes in.

You can choose to use any or all of the freely-usable DNSBL lists; SpamPal will look at the machines each email message passed through on its way to your mailbox, and if any of those machines is on one of the DNSBL lists you have chosen then that message will be tagged as spam.

Because not everyone who uses a machine on a DNSBL list will be a spammer, SpamPal has a powerful whitelisting feature that allows you to ignore DNSBL listings for certain senders or for parts of the Internet.

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