Spam Bully : Security Add-on

 

 

 

           Spam Bully is a great and efficient anti-spam tool. If you train it well, Spam Bully can rid your Inbox of unwanted emails almost completely. Be prepared for some false positives initially, though.

Advantages:

•     Spam Bully has a great spam detection rate using multiple powerful filtering techniques

•     You can request confirmations from new senders

•     Spam Bully integrates well with Outlook, Windows Mail and Outlook Express

Disadvantages:

•     Spam Bully requires Outlook, Windows Mail or Outlook Express and can mess with their settings

•     A pure, not pre-trained Bayesian solution may be more accurate overall

•     Spam Bully does not support IMAP accounts in Outlook Express

Description:

•     Spam Bully is a spam filtering plug-in for Outlook, Windows Mail and Outlook Express.

•     Offers lists of approved and banned senders, can import addresses from the Windows address book.

•     Can send a challenging message to unknown senders. Responding to the challenge approves them.

•     Spam Bully can bounce spam to the sender and access their web site to "punish" them.

•     Uses statistics-based (Bayesian) spam filters that learn as you classify incoming mail.

•     Spam Bully can forward email (sans the spam) to another email address or cell phone.

•     Real-time blackhole list lookups allow Spam Bully to block junk from know spam sources.

•     You can use Spam Bully to send out-of-office auto-replies to good mail.

•     Spam Bully keeps a detailed log and can show graphical statistics of good versus bad mail.

•     Spam Bully supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/ Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 and Windows Mail/Outlook Express/Outlook.