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Filtering spam is not a very fun experience. It takes a long time, and if you just don’t check your Junk Folder, one of your much needed emails might get deleted. Fortunately, there’s smart software that can get rid of the nasty spam in your Inbox, and keep what you want. And even more fortunately, some of this software is free.

The TOP 5 free spam filters.

1. POPFile

POPFile is an automatic mail classification tool. Once properly set up and trained, it will scan all email as it arrives and classify it based on your training. You can give it a simple job, like separating out junk e-mail, or a complicated one-like filing mail into a dozen folders. Think of it as a personal assistant for your inbox.

Unfortunately, POPFile can grow a heavy on your computer memory and cpu load if you have trained it to work on lots of mail, so be careful.

2. Spamihilator - Free Spam Filter

Spamihilator works between your EMail client and the Internet and examines every incoming EMail. Useless spam emails will be filtered out. This process runs completely in the background. It uses a Word Filter and a Learning Filter to do its job.

One problem is that you cannot remotely administer or teach Spamihilator, but that isn’t to big of a deal.

3. Spamato - Free Spam Filter

Spamato filters POP and IMAP accounts for spam. It includes plug-ins that make it easy to use in Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. Spamato contains graphical statistics that explain the efficiency of every single filter as well as the overall effectiveness of the whole system. You can also adjust several settings and see why a particular message has been regarded spam or ham.

Spamato is for advanced users however, as it has multiple options and little help.

4. K9 - Free Spam Filter

K9 is an email filtering application that works in conjunction with your regular POP3 email program and automatically classifies incoming emails as spam (junk email) or non-spam without the need for maintaining dozens of rules or constant updates to be downloaded. It uses intelligent statistical analysis that can result in extremely high accuracy over time.

K9 is for standard POP3 email accounts only. It does not directly support Hotmail, AOL or any other kind of webmail type systems, nor does it support SSL or secure authentication as used by MSN. The lack of remote administration puts it at #4.

5. SpamRip - Anti-spam
SpamRIP works like CallerID for e-mail. Each time you call it, SpamRIP scans all your remote mail servers inbox and checks each email against your white and black lists, public Black Lists (like Spamcop), and your blacklisted countries. Each suspicious email is automatically flagged. Then you get to choose which ones are deleted and which ones aren’t.

The problem with this software is that there is a bit to much user interaction needed, and it only works with POP3 email account(so no Hotmail or Yahoo).

Good anti spam software is hard to find, but the top 5 is listed right here. I hope somebody finds good use of this.

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