The Bottom Line
- Lets you browse and recover quarantined messages comfortably
- SpamX makes it easy to report spam correctly
- Works both as a standalone app and as a POP proxy
- SpamX is not 100% precise, produces false positives
- User interface, options can be confusing and cryptic
- Technology used to determine spam not transparent
Description
- SpamX is a tool for filtering and reporting spam.
- Working as either a standalone app or POP proxy, you can use SpamX with any email client.
- Mail determined to be junk is kept in SpamX for easy and secure review and recovery.
- SpamX also determines the source of spam and lets you send complaints easily.
- Using black and white lists of senders or domains you can override SpamX' analysis.
- SpamX can also send mail to your SpamCop account for processing and complaining.
- SpamX includes a nslookup/dig utility for manual DNS queries.
- SpamX supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and other Java 2 platforms.
Guide Review - SpamX 3.0 - Spam Filter
This secret weapon does spot most spam as spam. Unfortunately, SpamX is also a bit overzealous and sees spam in some good mail, too. Fortunately, it's easy to recover these messages and add the sender to the "Friends" list.
While filtering spam is not SpamX strongest point, you can use it as a powerful tool for complaining about junk mail. Whatever the method used by SpamX to determine spam is, it does find the correct address for complaints — the spammer's ISP — in most cases, and with a simple click of the "Report spam" button you've sent a complain that will hopefully make the spammer's life a bit more difficult.
Before you can use SpamX as a tool for reporting spam, you have to go through the somewhat confusing (partly due to radio buttons used like checkboxes) and cryptic configuration dialogs, though. If you don't know what "Class B Match" is supposed to mean or do, don't fret and use the defaults. Support for account types other than POP would be nice.
