Dylan Greene dot com

I get a lot of email. Over 1000 messages a day. Most of that is spam.

I've tried many different spam-fighting solutions, and selected my favorite... CloudMark SafetyBar.

Instead of using algorithms that try to guess what spam mail looks like, it uses it's vast network of users to tell it what is spam. If enough people flag an email as spam, it's spam for everybody. If enough people say it's not spam, then it's not spam. Pretty simple.

1. It's integrated into Outlook and Outlook Express. I prefer Outlook 2003.
2. Simple UI. On the rare case it misses an email, just press the "Block Spam" button and it goes away.
3. Low CPU usage. Some programs will practically freeze your computer as they examine each email.

The current version has some problems that others I tried didn't solve either. It doesn't block empty emails, and it sometimes misses emails that just contain a graphic.

I recommend giving CloudMark SafetyBar a try, they let you use it for a month for free.

• Screenshots and how it works.
• Download For Outlook and Outlook Express.
• Info for Exchange.
• Support Forums.

For reading blogs I use IntraVnews, which sucks new RSS feed content into folders in Outlook. The two programs work great together in that they do not interferer with each another, but some day I might want my RSS feeds to be spam checked as well, and that doesn't seem possible yet.