The Bottom Line
Spamfence is an effortless but highly effective spam (and virus) filtering service.
Its only real shortcoming is that Spamfence relies on forwarding and requires two different email accounts.
Its only real shortcoming is that Spamfence relies on forwarding and requires two different email accounts.
Pros
- Spamfence detects spam with great precision and accuracy
- Works seamlessly and without effort, saving you download time and resources
- Spamfence requires no configuration, maintenance or training
Cons
- Spamfence can't fetch mail from a POP or IMAP account itself, requires forwarding
- The spam detection rate of Spamfence is a bit short of a personalized Bayesian filter
- The address Spamfence delivers filtered mail to must not get in the hands of spammers
Description
- Spamfence is an effective spam and virus filtering service.
- You set up your email account to forward to Spamfence, where the messages are filtered.
- The filtered mail is then forwarded to another email account by Spamfence, where you can download it.
- Spamfence classifies mail using the main categories "clean", "bulk", "spam" and "dangerous".
- For each category, you can designate an address at which you want to receive mail.
- Additionally, Spamfence can add headers or modify subjects for filtering in your email program.
- Spamfence recognizes patterns of viral spread and dams outbreaks in addition to classic scanning.
- You can get statistics and graphs about the number and volume of each mail type in Spamfence.
