The Bottom Line
SpamSubtract is a friendly and easy to use anti-spam tool. Unfortunately, its filters are not efficient enough to prevent all spam (and only the spam) from entering your Inbox. SpamSubtract is no longer available.
Pros
- SpamSubtract is simple to set up and use
- Filters spam before your Inbox transparently
- Works with Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora
Cons
- SpamSubtract produces many false positives
- Filters not precise enough, no scoring, statistics
- Supports POP accounts only
Description
- SpamSubtract filters multiple POP accounts for spam automatically.
- Works with Outlook 2000/2002, Outlook Express 5/6 and Eudora 4/5.
- When you check for new mail, SpamSubtract quarantines the spam before it enters your Inbox.
- Spam is determined using filters that look for various criteria and words commonly found in spam.
- Mail from known senders and mailing lists is never filtered.
- Quarantined mail is presented in a useful overview by SpamSubtract, making it easy to recover.
- Messages can also be previewed and senders can be added to the list of friends instantly.
- SpamSubtract can filter all mail using non-Wester character sets.
- SpamSubtract supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - SpamSubtract 1.80 - Spam Filter
O how I love this tray icon. But SpamSubtract not only looks really great, it also promises to offer relief from spam.
Yet, while its filters are not completely useless, they are not quite precise enough either. The overzealous set of criteria that SpamSubtract looks for amounts to filtering everything but mail from known senders.
Fortunately, adding new senders to that list is a joy with SpamSubtract's useful overview of quarantined mail. Every aspect — from installation to setup and daily use — of SpamSubtract is a joy to use. I can't help but think they used some inferior filters to show off their great interface.
Apart from this, support for IMAP accounts, more email clients, and maybe Hotmail would be nice.
