I probably receive about 50 spam emails everyday from a variety of sources. I use Microsoft Outlook as my preferred email client. For the past few months, I have been shopping off and on for a good spam filter for Outlook.

Each program that I found was missing either one or another feature that I was looking for, but none that I saw had every feature I wanted. However, earlier this week I came across SpamBully 4, a great spam filter for Outlook- and it works with Vista as well.

As you can see from the screen capture, SpamBully adds a little toolbar to the top of Outlook with a few easy to use buttons. Mainly, there are two main spam buttons: Spam and Fight Back.

Although you can customize the specific actions for each of these buttons, the general idea is this: By clicking the spam button, you can block the users email address from appearing in your inbox and send it directly to a spam folder or to the trash. The fight back button (my favorite) can be programmed to do a variety of cool things. In addition to blocking the email address, you can send a fake Mailer Daemon to the sender to make it look as if your email address is no longer valid.

SpamBully will also send an email address to the ISP of the sender and report the user as sending unsolicited spam messages. You can even view a sort of “trace route” which will show where the email originated and the path it took to arrive at your inbox. For a full list of features, you can click here.

The price of SpamBully is a one time fee of $29.95. You can purchase SpamBully directly from their website.

I thought that this was a very reasonable and fair price for this piece of software, which will save me much time and frustration sorting through spam emails all day.

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Article posted by: Neon on August 5th, 2007