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I just downloaded and installed a package called Junk Spy. You can get it from www.junkspy.com
I've tried many and various junkmail blockers before, but this one is far and away the best I have ever seen. So far, since I installed it on Friday, I have had 64 emails, with the following results:
Junk mail intercepted successfully: 39
Real mail allowed through to my inbox: 21
Junk mail not intercepted: 4 (or two, depending on how you count them - I got three copies of one spam, to three of my various email addresses, plus one copy of another)
Real mail intercepted in error: 0
Considering that I have done no customization at all bar installing the package, that is a fantastic result. I've emailed copies of the two junk messages that got throughto junk@junkspy.com (as they request) and before too long they won't get through either.
Junk Spy costs US$59 and includes a one-year subscription to updates. Renewal costs US$24 a year. (It works just like an anti-virus subscription.) It is available for both its naitive OS/2 and now also Windows (any version from W95A through to XP Pro) and works with almost any email client.
You can have as many mail boxes as you like, as many email addresses as you like, and provided you are a single user using one machine at a time, you can load it onto as many different machines as you like. (I have it loaded on my OS/2 main office server, and also on my W2K box at home. One licence, perfectly legitimate.)
You have full control over the accept/reject rule database, and can add to it or modify it at will.
Installation is a breeze. You can specify things if you need to, such as your TCP/IP settings, but it auto-senses most of that stuff. Then, simply go to your email client and adjust your mail settings as follows:
Mail Server: "localhost" (this can vary, but localhost works on almost all machines)
Username: username/mail.yourmailserver.com
(That's assuming that your username is "username" and your mail server is "mail.yourmailserver.com". Not exactly rocket science, is it. Even Tannin could set this one up.) It should work with any email server except (a) web-based mail of the Hotmail flavour (no loss) and (b) AOL (even less of a loss).
You will notice a slight degradation in speed, as instead of simply fetching your mail, your client will ask Junk Spy for mail and wait while Junk Spy downloads the first item and checks it, then passes it to your mail client, then gets the next item, and so on. It takes maybe 50% longer to check my mail than it did without Junk Spy. A very small price to pay. Depending on your preferences and on the capabilities of your mail client, you can choose to either just delete the junk messages or to filter them out into a seperate in-basket (so that you can go through them every now and then, just in case Junk Spy has flagged a "real" message as spam..
The demo is free to download and is 100% functional except that it only blocks the first two junk emails each day.
Is Junk Spy worth the US$54? My oath it is. Worth every penny and then some. Highly recommended.
I've tried many and various junkmail blockers before, but this one is far and away the best I have ever seen. So far, since I installed it on Friday, I have had 64 emails, with the following results:
Junk mail intercepted successfully: 39
Real mail allowed through to my inbox: 21
Junk mail not intercepted: 4 (or two, depending on how you count them - I got three copies of one spam, to three of my various email addresses, plus one copy of another)
Real mail intercepted in error: 0
Considering that I have done no customization at all bar installing the package, that is a fantastic result. I've emailed copies of the two junk messages that got throughto junk@junkspy.com (as they request) and before too long they won't get through either.
Junk Spy costs US$59 and includes a one-year subscription to updates. Renewal costs US$24 a year. (It works just like an anti-virus subscription.) It is available for both its naitive OS/2 and now also Windows (any version from W95A through to XP Pro) and works with almost any email client.
You can have as many mail boxes as you like, as many email addresses as you like, and provided you are a single user using one machine at a time, you can load it onto as many different machines as you like. (I have it loaded on my OS/2 main office server, and also on my W2K box at home. One licence, perfectly legitimate.)
You have full control over the accept/reject rule database, and can add to it or modify it at will.
Installation is a breeze. You can specify things if you need to, such as your TCP/IP settings, but it auto-senses most of that stuff. Then, simply go to your email client and adjust your mail settings as follows:
Mail Server: "localhost" (this can vary, but localhost works on almost all machines)
Username: username/mail.yourmailserver.com
(That's assuming that your username is "username" and your mail server is "mail.yourmailserver.com". Not exactly rocket science, is it. Even Tannin could set this one up.) It should work with any email server except (a) web-based mail of the Hotmail flavour (no loss) and (b) AOL (even less of a loss).
You will notice a slight degradation in speed, as instead of simply fetching your mail, your client will ask Junk Spy for mail and wait while Junk Spy downloads the first item and checks it, then passes it to your mail client, then gets the next item, and so on. It takes maybe 50% longer to check my mail than it did without Junk Spy. A very small price to pay. Depending on your preferences and on the capabilities of your mail client, you can choose to either just delete the junk messages or to filter them out into a seperate in-basket (so that you can go through them every now and then, just in case Junk Spy has flagged a "real" message as spam..
The demo is free to download and is 100% functional except that it only blocks the first two junk emails each day.
Is Junk Spy worth the US$54? My oath it is. Worth every penny and then some. Highly recommended.
