www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk

As i have several websites with email address's on them i get a lot of spam via the bots harvesting email addresses.Thunderbird does get rid of quite a few but recently its got out of hand so looked for a new solution.

Found a great addon called spamfighter and i cannot rate it enough.Since installing it (it intergrates into thunderbird and outlook) ive only had 1 or 2 spam emails slip through the filter and no genuine emails go into its spam folder.30 day free trial then £17 per year for the pro version.

Will let you know how well the cut down version performs when my trial runs out but so far its been brilliant and i would quite happily pay £17 a year for it.

On average i was getting 80 or more spam emails a day so you can see why im happy to pay for it.

Looks interesting and not a bad deal.

After 30 days, the slimmed down protection should be fine the average home user.

For anyone interested in looking into it:
http://www.spamfighter.com/

Download links

Standard and Pro Features

I have box trapper installed on the server now as I was getting so many spam emails. Now if someone sends me an email and they are not on my whitelist the email does not get to me, the box trapper emails them and tells them to click on a link before the email is delivered. It works really well and I can review any undelivered messages, without it I would be fighting with a couple of hundred spam emails per day.

Anything that stops the spam is ok with me

I have a hotmail account, and it gets almost zero spam (mabye one every few months), and i have had it for 12 years now

One way to foil email harvesters is to use a graphical representation of your email address rather than a clickable address. Humans can use both but software can't. It's kind of a non-interactive CAPTCHA - well maybe not.