Alternative SPAM Filters

FACT: Did you know that over 60% of email nowdays is SPAM ?

I'm not trying to scare you with these figures - here's a snapshot of my SPAM Arrest account taken on 5 September, 2007.

You can see that out of 5,802 emails received, only 2,168 have been allowed through to my actual mail system.

That's a 62% volume of SPAM in my inbox.

Have you got time to wade through thousands of SPAM Emails everyday ? If not, take a look at these anti-SPAM programs and decide for yourself !

1. SPAM Arrest

Try SPAM Arrest free for 30 days - without paying a cent! Here's why SPAM Arrest are the leaders in anti-SPAM technology: Their Patented challenge/response technology blocks 100% of automated spam. You get a new email address (yourname@spamarrest.com), as well as protect your existing mailboxes (up to five are initially included but can be expanded to many, many more...) 

You can access your email using your favorite POP3/IMAP-compatible program (such as Outlook or Eudora), or from anywhere using our powerful webmail system. Just set up your mail settings to log into SPAM Arrest, and set your SPAM Arrest up to receive all your email boxes that you want to protect !

2. Mail Info

This PC Based software interacts with your Micorspft Outlook or Outlook Express mail program. Download the 30 day FREE Trial version. There are several key features that make it an attractive piece of software to use:

* Get reminders to follow-up on emails that appear lost.
* Know whenever your outgoing emails are viewed - as it happens.
* Know the approximate location on which your emails were viewed.
* Continue to use your Microsoft Outlook as you always do.
* Maintain the privacy of your emails. 

3. Zero SPAM

0Spam.com provides a very efficient and powerful anti-spam service designed for most operating systems, E-mail clients, and is compatible with POP3 accounts, Yahoo, Hotmail, and GMail. 

Their message verification system based on automated and user whitelists allows 0Spam.com users to whitelist and blacklist E-mails, domains, keywords, phrases, and mailing lists in order to effectively prevent spam from entering multiple inboxes.

0Spam.com is not a software program, nothing to download or install, and there is no need to change the way your E-mail accounts are currently setup.  Once you have joined 0Spam.com and configured your 0Spam.com account, nothing more is required on your part.

The best part: it's FREE !

4. Choice Mail

ChoiceMail is a permission based spam blocker that customizes itself to you. Permission-based means ChoiceMail assumes email is spam unless it is told otherwise.

Only approved email gets into your inbox. ChoiceMail automatically approves email from people you know and trust - this is done by setting up your "whitelists" within the account. You can create simple rules to approve emails that are important to you.

And it lets you automatically query unknown senders to find out who they are and what they want before their email gets into your inbox. You can decide if this is someone you want to hear from, or not hear from. Legitimate senders usually respond to this query, but spammers never do.

VISTA and Windows mail is now also compatible with Choice Mail.