The Bottom Line
FilterMy.com is a simple and efficient spam and virus filtering service. Unfortunately, it only works with POP accounts and advanced users may miss some configuration options.
Pros
- FilterMy.com is particularly simple, easy to use
- Catches a very good deal of spam
- FilterMy.com filters for viruses, too
Cons
- FilterMy.com filters not transparent, configurable
- Works only with POP accounts
Description
- FilterMy.com filters POP email accounts for spam and viruses.
- FilterMy.com periodically checks your account and deletes all spam and viruses it detects.
- If you connect to your mail server, you download only the good mail left untouched by FilterMy.com.
- Optionally, a filtered FilterMy.com POP account and webmail access are available.
- A daily email informs you about the messages held in quarantine by FilterMy.com.
- From this summary, it is easy to recover false positives.
Guide Review - FilterMy.com - Spam Filtering Service
Spam and viruses are the two ingredients that can turn the finest email menu sour. FilterMy.com offers an impressively simple and effective solution. After you give FilterMy.com your account details, the spam is simply not there anymore (most of it, at least).
At periodic intervals, FilterMy.com scans your mailbox, removing all detected spam and viruses. Optionally, you can get POP access to your filtered mail through a dedicated account and via a useful web interface.
Usually, FilterMy.com's decisions concerning what is spam are pretty accurate, but if the inevitable false positive strikes, you can recover the message easily using a daily report of filtered mail. All in all, FilterMy.com is a really easy to use way to get rid of spam.
