The Bottom Line
Inbox Protector OE plugs into your Outlook Express and pulls the plug on spam — at least most of it — with hardly any effort on your side. Unfortunately, Inbox Protector OE is no longer available.
Pros
- Inbox Protector OE is easy to use
- Detects and deletes a good deal of spam
- Supports custom filters
Cons
- Inbox Protector OE filters are not transparent
- Has problems detecting foreign-language spam
- No automatic filter updates
Description
- Inbox Protector OE automatically or manually scans your Outlook Express Inbox for spam.
- Spam detected by Inbox Protector OE is automatically moved to the Trash.
- Unsolicited messages are detected by text filters and a scoring mechanism.
- Filter aggressiveness can be tuned per spam category in Inbox Protector OE.
- Custom filters can be added easily, Inbox Protector OE also uses black and white lists.
- Inbox Protector OE supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP and Outlook Express.
Guide Review - Inbox Protector OE 2.0
If you want to get rid of at least a bit of all that spam that reliably shows up in your Outlook Express Inbox every day you can employ a separate anti-spam program or you try constructing rules in Outlook Express that put spam in the Trash.
Or you use Inbox Protector OE. This plug-in for Outlook Express reliably detects a good deal of the unsolicited emails (it has problems primarily with foreign language spam) using text filters and a scoring system.
While constructing your own filters is quite easy, a feature to automatically update the default rules via the Web would be nice. Fortunately, Inbox Protector OE is easy to use. The documentation is far from being exhaustive and mainly consists of a FAQ.
