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The Bottom Line
Mail Snoop Pro makes for a nice mail checker, and it comes with a long list of filters aimed at curbing spam. Unfortunately, these filters are not very precise and will delete good mail if you don't use the white list extensively or disable them.
Pros
- Mail Snoop Pro comes with a large number of spam filters
- It's easy to add new filters or build the white and black lists of senders
- Mail Snoop Pro works nicely as a mail checker, too
Cons
- Mail Snoop Pro filters aren't too precise, prone to "destroying" good mail
Description
- Mail Snoop Pro checks multiple POP and IMAP email accounts for new mail and spam periodically.
- Using flexible filters, Mail Snoop Pro can delete mail directly at the server or query the user.
- Mail Snoop Pro comes with a long list of ready-made filters.
- It's easy to construct new filters or build the black and white lists from existing messages.
- In a filter report, Mail Snoop Pro shows you which filter triggered a specific action.
- Mail Snoop Pro can announce new mail using the system tray, sound or a notification window.
- Mail Snoop Pro supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista.
Guide Review - Mail Snoop Pro 1.11
Mail Snoop Pro has some of the ingredients that can make a great mail checker with anti-spam ambitions: it can use fairly flexible filters to detect junk mail or viruses, it supports multiple accounts (POP only, unfortunately), can download message headers only and Mail Snoop Pro can delete spam directly at the server — and it comes with a big number of predefined filters.
Unfortunately, these filters and their underlying architecture, designed to make your life easier, will make it more difficult. Using neither statistics nor scoring, Mail Snoop Pro will leave a lot of spam undetected but kill some good mail instead.
Fortunately, it also mentions why each mail was deleted, so you can find out which of the predefined filters was a bit overzealous and disable it. Alternatively, you can build white lists or filters to counter-act the original filters easily. Neither is a sustainable, comfortable, simple or effective solution, though.
Mail Snoop Pro is best as a mail checker and remote mailbox browser that allows you to delete some emails fast — manually.
