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0Spam.com - Spam Filtering Service

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0Spam.com - Spam Filtering Service

0Spam.com - Spam Filtering Service

Heinz Tschabitscher
The Bottom Line
0Spam.com is a very convenient spam filtering service that cleans your email of all mail from non-approved senders before you download it. While easy to use, 0Spam.com lacks a few features of challenge/response filters such as global white lists, disposable addresses or outgoing mail whitelisting.
Pros
  • 0Spam.com stops spam in an efficient way requiring little effort
  • You can protect Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Gmail accounts with 0Spam.com
Cons
  • 0Spam.com offers no audible captcha alternative
  • You cannot create pre-approved disposable addresses at 0Spam.com
  • Spammers using commonly approved addresses can get through, newsletters often not
Description
  • 0Spam.com filters a POP, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or Gmail account for spam.
  • Only mail from senders on an address, domain or keyword whitelist gets through to you.
  • 0Spam.com works as a remote POP proxy through which you only receive clean mail.
  • Optionally, 0Spam.com can send periodic digests of non-approved mail for manual authorization.
  • Quarantined mail is also accessible via the 0Spam.com web site.
  • 0Spam.com also provides black lists of addresses, domains and keywords.
Guide Review - 0Spam.com - Spam Filtering Service
If maintaining and checking a spam filter is more work than deleting the spam it purportedly stops, that may be a nice exercise in programming and patience, but it is not particularly efficient.

0Spam.com is a spam filtering service you can set up and forget. If somebody mails you, 0Spam will diligently check if the message is from an approved sender and allow it through or challenge the sender to approve themselves. Via a smart and easy to set up proxy setup, all this works transparently, even with Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail accounts.

Unfortunately, senders can not authorize via an audible alternative to the standard visual challenge. And while you can import address books to 0Spam.com and set up keyword filters (messages containing a whitelisted keyword get through), a smart global whitelist may make life easier for senders of newsletters and mailing list admins. 0Spam also cannot automatically whitelist people you mail.

Another nice addition to 0Spam.com's basic service would be the option to create disposable email addresses that allow messages through without prior authorization. Some filtering prior to the challenge could allow 0Spam.com to avoid mailing obvious spammers while junk email coming form an already whitelisted address gets through. IMAP accounts are not fully supported by 0Spam.com.

User Reviews

 5 out of 5
A wonderful spam program!, Member robtpatrick

After trying ""several"" spam services, I came across this srvice, signed up and have never been happier. To those with a preference, this service will not be a ""favorite"" What I did was ""pre arrange"" my whitelists and blacklists(if any) set up my EMail accounts and am on my way. I chose this service(and paid a 1 time fee of $30) since I have other accounts. This service takes the spam out of AOL which is iMap, not POP. I am satisfied, and do not need to reply to emails which have been removed as spam. A wonderful service, and also apeared in PC Magazine as a fine Spam service. The one time fee is indeed a one time fee;you become a ""premium member with no further charges.

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