Email is a fantastic means of communicating with the world, but sadly the world of email is riddled with one problem that never seems to go away – spam. If you use Outlook, you’ll know that the Junk Email Filter in Outlook works pretty good, but its not handy when it comes to consistently identifying junk email and keeping them out of our Inboxes. If you, like me maintain more than one account in Outlook, then you simply cannot afford to spend time on cleaning up the never ending junk that waltzes into your Inbox every day. Thankfully, there are several great Outlook spam filter add ons that should make your job easy. Let’s check them out!
Top Outlook Spam Filter Add ons
Spamfighter
Spamfighter is a powerful anti spam filter for Outlook that gives you complete control over your email so that your safe senders are never blocked and blacklisted email never pops up in your Inbox. The coolest thing about Spamfighter is that with a one click block, you not only prevent junk from your Inbox, you are effectively helping Outlook spam filter users around the world from receiving such email into their Inboxes. Spamfighter ensures that you don’t have to constantly keep managing your whitelist, as the entire process is automated. The standard version of the add on is free for home users but it comes with ads in the toolbar as well as a footer ad that will go out in all incoming and outgoing email. The Pro version, which costs $29 offers plenty of additional advantages such as no limits on how many email accounts you want to manage, language filtering tools as well as the absence of ads and credits.
Visit the Spamfighter website to download the add on.
Cloudmark DesktopOne
This award winning tool from Cloudmark offers protection against spam, phishing and viruses and comes in two flavors. The Basic mode offers protection for just one email account and one folder, while the Pro version, which costs $19.95 a year offers support for unlimited accounts and folders apart from throwing in additional features such as auto deleting old spam, online account management and advanced filtering and configuration options. DesktopOne works independently of your email client as well, so even if you don’t have Outlook open, it will carry out its respective tasks.
Visit the Cloudmark website for more details.
Spam Reader
Spam Reader is another free Outlook spam filter add on that scans all your incoming email and sends the dodgy ones to a special folder where you can review them. The tool makes use of a Bayesian algorithm to determine if a message is a spam and makes use of statistical analysis of your Inbox to correct its databases. Spam Reader contains a special algo that integrates itself well with Microsoft Office Rules so that there is no confusion created when you have separate Rules governing your Inbox. Spam Reader comes with a free and paid variant, the free tool adding a disclaimer to all your incoming and outgoing messages after 30 days. The Pro version of the tool is priced $39.95 or $59.90 if you want the major upgrades for free.
Check out the Spam Reader website for more details.
Spamihilator
Spamihilator’s Learning Filter claims to recognize more than 98% of spam mails and even lets you configure the filters so you get the best anti spam protection possible. When you set up your whitelist and blocked list, this anti spam plugin will be able to delete messages directly on the mail server itself, saving you the cost of downloading.
It runs intuitively in the background and email that is recognized as spam is sent to the Spamihilator Recycle Bin so unwanted email is not retained in your client. This anti spam filter also works on secure email connections and encrypts all incoming and outgoing data in such situations. You can access all the settings in the notification area and effortlessly manage your spam from the Recycle Bin.
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Spamihilator is free to download and use and you can get it on the Spamihilator website.
SpamBully
SpamBully also makes use of the popular Bayesian spam filter to identify email which is good and which ones contains phishing links, so that only the good email gets to your Inbox. The spam filter for Outlook also checks Realtime Blackhole Lists to identify mass spammers and filter them out. What’s more, the tool even lets you get back at spammers by returning the spam back to them and reporting them to the servers they came from. Spambully is free to try with a one year’s subscription costing $29.95.
You can give Spambully a try by checking out the SpamBully website.
SpamAid
SpamAid is a really easy to use Outlook spam filter that lets you manage the good and bad email by choosing your friends and enemies. It also tests and grades your outgoing mail for potential risk of being filtered as spam by other spam filters and provides reasons for doing so. The tool also learns from your usage of Outlook and accordingly adjusts its filtering mechanism. It also allows you to create your own rules for recognizing spam and eliminating it.
SpamAid comes with a free trial for 30 days after which you’ll have to spend $29 to keep using it. You can get all the details about SpamAid on their website.
CA Anti Spam
CA Anti Spam is an award winning software that automatically builds the whitelist of approved senders by scanning your email and contacts during installation. And as you work with your email, it updates the list intelligently. The tool ensures that email messages received from a new sender are never junked and alerts you in periodic intervals to check the Quarantined Message panel for any email that may have been wrongly junked.
You get a 15 day free trial with CA Anti Spam after which you can buy the product for $29.99. Get all the details about this Outlook Spam filter on its official website.
Is spam email ruining your day and affecting your productivity? Try out these popular and highly useful Outlook spam filter add ons and you’ll find yourself free of the burden of dealing with junk everyday.
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