The Bottom Line
Apocgraphy is your one-stop solution to private, safe and spam-free email. It removes spam, viruses and privacy threats. Unfortunately, Apocgraphy tends to be overeager and overprotective by default.
Pros
- Apocgraphy is a comprehensive, powerful solution
- Prevents spam and viruses, protects your privacy
- Apocgraphy requires little configuration
Cons
- Apocgraphy produces tons of false positives
- Processing email can be painfully slow
- Apocgraphy supports POP accounts only
Description
- Apocgraphy filters email for spam, hoaxes, security threats and privacy invasions.
- Apocgraphy works as a POP and SMTP proxy to catch incoming and outgoing mail.
- Each incoming message is compared to a database of categorized messages.
- Apocgraphy lets you (re-)classify each message and white- or blacklist sender and subject.
- Additional filters let Apocgraphy to detect hoaxes, dangerous attachments, privacy threats and spam.
- All suspicious mail is quarantined, HTML containing Web bugs is stripped.
- Apocgraphy automatically intercepts all POP and SMTP email traffic and needs no configuration.
- Apocgraphy lets you send and receive mail through Hotmail, too.
- Apocgraphy supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Guide Review - Apocgraphy 1.01 - Spam Filter
Email, which once was so exciting, seems to be only dangerous today. Apocgraphy is a tool designed to ward off all these dangers: it filters spam, hoaxes, viruses, privacy threats and what not.
In fact, with its default settings Apocgraphy found a reason to filter or cripple just about every mail. If tuned properly, Apocgraphy can be a pretty effective tool, though.
Apocgrahy's chief technique is a (monitored) database of email classifications to which you can submit yours and which is used to filter incoming mail. Apart from this, Apocgraphy uses several rules that enhance security by disabling attachments and Web bugs, for example, or filter certain language.
With all this, Apocgraphy can get a bit complicated in spite of its easy setup.
