Whilst I’m waiting to board, I might as well take the time to blog to the world how impressed I am with the Spamato Ad-on for Thunderbird. I have not had any much success with the Thunderbird adaptive junk email filter system, nor with the uncustomisable Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 2008 anti-spam solution. So I sought greener pastures and tried Spamato. It doesn’t take much effort to setup, but you do have to manually specify your Java binaries directory. Once setup, you’re laughing! It uses seven types of anti-spam filters which means you can use them all with low thresholds, and set it to require two filters to classify as spam (i.e. default settings) which means chances of false detection are slim to none.
If I didn’t use the gmail web interfaces (for mobile browser as well as normal browser) and still used Thunderbird, I would defintely go the Spamato solution.
I do find Gmail to have an outstanding spam filter built in anyway, which has never falsely detected any spam, and only let less than 0.1% of spam get to my inbox.
