If you are like me, each day you waste many minutes of your day wading through annoying spam messages in your email inbox. These messages range from random advertising pitches, to Internet pornography to cyber-criminals trying to get a hold of my sensitive financial data through phishing emails.
In my job as an Internet writer, I have about half a dozen email addresses that I monitor each day. It is not an exaggeration to say that I get a combined 75 or more spam emails to these email addresses every day. Well, at least I used to.
About three months ago, I decided enough was enough. I set out on a quest to find ways to mitigate the amount of spam hitting my inbox each day. My first goal was to find free spam blocking software for my Outlook Express email program.
After some research and trying out a few different solutions, I actually settled on a program called SpamFighter. If you are using it on private email addresses (which is what I tested it on), it is free software that works with Outlook and Outlook Express. Basically, it tests each email that hits your inbox and then sends spam messages, advertising messages and phishing emails to your spam folder. The company that developed it offers a paid version as well, but the free worked just fine for my needs. The only annoyance that made me consider upgrading to the paid version was that each email I send adds a little signature line promoting SpamFighter to my email recipients. In the paid version, this does not happen.
I’m not necessarily endorsing SpamFighter as the best free solution out there for individuals using Outlook or Outlook Express, but it worked for me. I liked it because it a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and it did a good job of weeding out spam. As a matter-a-fact, in the email account I tested it on it cut down my daily messages by 60 percent!
My next step was to look for another option that would work for my business-related email addresses. Since the goal for this was to find free anti-spam programs, SpamFighter would not solve my problems on the business side. There are many other programs out there that are free to use for businesses and private use alike, but I found many too hard to setup and others were not so good at catching spam.
In the end, I settled on using Google’s Gmail platform. I took my business related email addresses (which are all POP3 email addresses) and I ran them through Gmail. Gmail has an awesome spam detection feature and it worked perfectly. It is also 100 percent FREE!
As of today, my daily encounters with spam messages has decreased considerably. Please understand, no program or service can stop all spam messages, but these options did slow them down considerably.
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