Anti Spam Email Software

Anti spam email software may not be high on the "I want it" list for those who have few visits everyday from the email stork, but if half or more of your inbox is filled with deliveries of little unwanted and annoying mail from people that are complete strangers or offers for car loans and exotic vacations that just clog your ISP memory, the idea can be very intriguing. And if the budget is not very friendly towards another software purchase, there is plenty of free spam blocking software available to at least slow the spam deluge down to a drip. Getting web mail from names of people that are obvious pseudonyms can drive a user crazy because the effort to get the user to open the web mail is nothing shy of blatant. Of course offers from car loan companies are almost as annoying, especially if you don't own a car! So if some computer program can end many of the intrusions onto our computer monitor each day, the effort to secure anti spam email software will be worth the energy and perhaps small expense.

One company that touts its scram spam product reminds potential clients that all anti spam email software fails at times to block unwanted Internet mailings. The approach this particular company takes is to analyze the customer's already constructed address book of Internet mailing addresses and uses that list as the beginning of the sorting out process. This particular program calls itself a permission based blocker which means that the customer creates the kinds of rules that will be used to rule out unwanted junk mail. This anti spam email software then actually sends an Internet diplomat, so to speak, in the form of a query to each originator of questionable emails and asks the business and purpose of the sent web mail. Legit senders answer the query and the fakes do not, or so say the creators. "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered." (Psalm: 32:1)

Free spam blocking software is out there also to help in the fight against unwanted web mail. While not mentioning any program names, the following are excerpts of comments from one expert on a number of free spam blocking software programs. "Very good program but gets heavy upon memory and cpu load if trained on a lot of mail. Effortless and effective but relies on forwarding and requires two web mail accounts. Effective but cannot remotely administer or teach the program. Overwhelming with a multitude of options and very little help. Gets rid of junk email precisely and effortlessly. Wonderfully easy to use but only works with POP lists and cannot be used remotely. A tad clumsy to use and may crash now and then." It appears that the free programs are wonderfully effective in most cases, but a potential use would want to carefully read reviews to see which free software programs are the best for their situation.

There are a few terms that you might need to know when looking at anti spam email software. The first is POP 2 or POP3 which stand for Post Office Protocol. There are two types of protocol that web mail can have, one being POP. POP is one way of retrieving web mail that has been sent to the recipient. The second protocol is called IMAP, which stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. This newer form of message retrieval allows a person to type in keywords in the email to discover whether or not the email is worth opening or not. This can be done while the mail is still on the mail server and before it is logged in to the user's system so experts advise having a person's email program configured to take both POP and IMAP type emails. Finally, the term SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is a protocol that is used to send messages between servers.

While many of the retail anti spam software packages handle both POP and IMAP account type email, not all the free spam blocking software programs do. As the popularity of being able to actually analyze email by keywords before even leaving the email server increases, so will the desire by users to be able to block both types of access protocols if desired. But here are some features that can be found on both the free and retail junk blockers. First is what is known as bounce which sends unwanted emails back to the sender giving the impression that your email address is not longer active, thus giving the sender great incentive to take your web mail address off their mail list. That's sneaky and lets all do it! The second feature on many retail and free spam blocking software is what is called Bayesian spam filtering which is a set of clever algorithms to actually be able to learn what is junk for the user based on opened and unopened email.

If a person has fifty emails waiting in the morning to be sorted through, this kind of software, either free or retail would have to be a relief. Frankly, it can be a real headache in many cases to open promising web mail only to find it a Trojan horse. Consider using this software to make your computer experience a little more pleasing and not so much of a burden. Consider also God's help to assist in filtering out a lot of the stuff that is harmful to all of us every day. Whether on the Net, on the airwaves, or in our thoughts, it's not just spam, but also the lies our Enemy feeds us that need filtering.

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