The Bottom Line
AllSpamGone almost eliminates spam by applying a strict authorized-senders-only policy. Unfortunately, this may annoy new senders, and spammers using commonly authorized addresses still get through.
AllSpamGone is no longer available.
AllSpamGone is no longer available.
Pros
- AllSpamGone uses effective new sender challges
- AllSpamGone is easy to use
- Can import senders from address books
Cons
- AllSpamGone authentication messages can annoy
- Supports POP accounts only
- Spammers using authorized addresses get through
Description
- AllSpamGone checks multiple POP accounts for new mail, and new spam, periodically.
- Only mail from authorizes senders is left untouched for download in your regular email program.
- AllSpamGone places mail from new senders in quarantine and sends a challenging message.
- If the sender doesn't respond to the challenge within 5 days, AllSpamGone deletes the sender's mail.
- Senders can be authorized manually, and AllSpamGone can import from several address books.
- AllSpamGone lets you authorize and block full domains, too.
- Additionally, you can use simple rules and filter for sender, subject or recipient.
- The challenging message sent by AllSpamGone can be customized.
- AllSpamGone supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - AllSpamGone 2.2.2 - Spam Filter
AllSpamGone makes a promise: all spam gone. It more or less achieves this, but at a price.
Only mail from authorized senders is allowed through to your email program. Messages from unknown senders are quarantined, and the sender is challenged to authorize themselves. This can be annoying, and it creates lots of unnecessary mail to bogus email addresses used by spammers, but at least it works — as long as spammers don't start using commonly authorized addresses (of popular newsletters, for example).
It's also a pity that AllSpamGone support POP accounts only. On the plus side is a nice and quite easy to use (albeit a bit overloaded) interface.
