Programs: ChoiceMail Puts a Stranglehold on Spam

[RedEarth]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) - I don't need Viagra, my credit is fine, and somehow I doubt the PhD offered via e-mail with "no required tests, classes, books, or interviews!" is going to be worth much. If you're inundated and infuriated by spam, the newly released free version of DigiPortal Software's ChoiceMail may prevent you from going postal.


I've found it does a wonderful job of mopping up the insidious e-mail that gets past most spam filters.


I receive, on average, about 33 pieces of junk mail per day. The spam blocker offered by my Internet provider screens out 75 percent of the messages, but one in four still get through, partly because spammers keep finding ingenious and insidious new ways to get past the filters. One way is by spelling Viagra "V!(at)gra."


ChoiceMail takes a different approach. It uses all the names in your electronic address book to create a "whitelist" of people you probably want to hear from. Messages from them will get through automatically, unless you decide otherwise. If you send e-mail to someone, ChoiceMail automatically adds that address to your whitelist -- another feature that can be turned off, if you wish.

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[TlalocW]

1. knowspam.net

Does the same thing too. Automatically adds people you send an email to; you can block entire domains or just individual addresses from that domain; you can set up an auto-reply function that replies to messages from "people" not on your safe list that asks them to reply to it to prove that they're human. I go to that site once a day to look through the blocked spam subject titles and addresses then accept the ones I want. The only spam that gets through now are from people spoofing my email so that it looks like I sent myself an email. My address is in my safe list because sometimes I send myself reminders that way.

TlalocW

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Thanks much appreciated

If you want the free for Home use version click the link

http://www.digiportal.com/homeproducts.html

ChoiceMail Free

Recommended for: Single-users with one POP3 email account

ChoiceMail Free is a new FREE version of our highly acclaimed ChoiceMail One product. It may be all the spam protection you need. It contains ChoiceMail’s most important features, including whitelist, blacklist, permission/blocking rules (both built-in and user-defined), safe message previewing and unknown sender registration. ChoiceMail Free does not work with AOL, Yahoo, MSN and Hotmail webmail accounts. Some features available in ChoiceMail One are disabled, and certain user preferences, such as the content of automated messages, are fixed.

http://www.digiportal.com/homeproducts.html

[BlueEyedSon]

3. MailWasher Pro 4.1

http://www.mailwasher.net/

[Moderator]

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