The Bottom Line
Unfortunately, Lyttlesoft Spamologist is not actively developed.
Pros
- Lyttlesoft Spamologist eliminates practically all spam
- Using header and content analysis, Lyttlesoft Spamologist can challenge new non-spam senders only
- Lyttlesoft Spamologist is easy to use set up and use
Cons
- Lyttlesoft Spamologist supports POP accounts only
- Spammers using a whitelisted address can get through to your Inbox
- With Lyttlesoft Spamologist's default settings, false positives are possible
Description
- Lyttlesoft Spamologist is a junk mail filter for POP accounts.
- Working as a POP and SMTP proxy, Lyttlesoft Spamologist integrates seamlessly with any email client.
- Using scoring dictionary filtering and header forgery analysis, Spamologist spots obvious spam.
- Spamologist also challenges either all new senders or just senders of spammy/non-spammy mail.
- When the sender responds to the challenge, Spamologist releases the mail from its quarantine.
- Senders can also be white- or blacklisted manually, and quarantined mail can be released.
- Lyttlesoft Spamologist can check public black lists in addition to its own for known spam sources.
- People you mail can be whitelisted automatically by Lyttlesoft Spamologist.
- Lyttlesoft Spamologist supports Windows 98/ME/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - Lyttlesoft Spamologist 1.1 - Spam Filter
Those who use Spamologist usually have good reason to call themselves lucky, though. Using a combination of content analysis and a challenge/response system, Lyttlesoft Spamologist filters out just about all junk email easily. A wizard takes care of the essential configuration, and that can also be all the configuration you need. Then Lyttlesoft Spamologist hums along in the background, silently removing spam and challenging new senders while only mail from trusted senders reaches your Inbox.
That Lyttlesoft Spamologist only challenges senders of mail that is not obviously (by its standards) spam by default reduces the mail traffic but introduces a slim chance of false positives.
While it is nice that Lyttlesoft Spamologist checks public blacklists of known spam sources, a list of commonly verified senders could reduce the annoyance for non-spammers and ease the pain for senders of newsletters who often cannot authorize with every recipient.
