No Spam Today! for Workstations
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No Spam Today! for Workstations 3.1.4.2 is a Anti Spam Software product from byteplant.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, No Spam Today! for Workstations is a POP3 spam filter for Outlook, Outlook Express and all other POP3 email clients, that uses the SpamAssassin engine to perform Bayesian filtering of incoming messages, and also quarantines message attachments for added security. The software runs as a local POP3 server and marks the subject line of incoming spam, so you can use your email program`s rules feature to further process the messages based on your preference (move them, delete them etc.).
You can customize the text that is added to the subject line, and also choose to delete spam messages immediately. The (open-source) spam engine used, has been proven to work very impactfully, however to get most out of the program, you will need some basic understanding of POP accounts and email rules.
NoSpamToday! for Workstations was created for Windows users that do not maintain a mail server of their own, but still want to use SpamAssassin to identify and filter out spam.
NoSpamToday! for Workstations is the ideal spam filter for Outlook and Outlook Express but can also be used with any other POP3 email client, including Eudora, Mozilla, Pegasus, The Bat!, and many others.
Complete e-mail Security
NoSpamToday! offers complete security for all your POP3 email accounts. It protects you against malicious attachments, viruses and spam mails.
The built-in attachment blocker allows you to specify a list of attachments that you want block.
Built-in support for all popular virus checkers to protect you against virus attacks.
The award-winning SpamAssassin engine filters out spam mails.
NoSpamToday! for Workstations - Features and Benefits
NoSpamToday! for Workstations blocks spam before it gets to your email client. It works by accepting POP3 connections on port 110 of your computer's loopback interface, and forwarding all requests to your ISP's POP3 server.
The technical details of how NoSpamToday! works: Your mail client initiates a POP3 connection to your ISP (internet service provider), to retrieve all the mail you haven't seen yet. NoSpamToday! for Workstations positions itself in between, mails retrieved from your ISP are passed through the built-in attachment blocker, a virus checker (optional) and the award-winning SpamAssassin. filter. Of course, all you really need to know is that spam won't get through to you!
All mail messages retrieved are first scanned by the built-in attachment blocker. It comes preconfigured with a list of potential virus vectors to be blocked, but you can of course change this list according to your needs.
In a second step, messages are checked for viruses by 3rd party tools such as Clam Anti Virus and F-Prot Anti Virus. NoSpamToday!'s built-in support for many different virus checkers makes it easy to set up Anti Virus protection.
Finally, messages are checked for spam using the award-winning SpamAssassin engine.
Fight Spam with Award-Winning SpamAssassin!
SpamAssassin combines the most impactful and advanced anti spam technologies into one strong solution that accurately determines if a message is or is not spam. It uses a comprehensive list of heuristic rules and checks to score messages. This filtering is totally automated, and spam-scoring thresholds are customizable. It also includes Bayesian filtering and offers many additional features, such as complete spam message reporting, header reporting and much more.
SpamAssassin uses the following tests and techniques to identify spam:
Email Header Analysis:
The mail headers are scanned for some small inconsistencies that can give away forgeries: A mail date in the past or in the future, forged message IDs, and the like.
Keyword Checking and Text Analysis:
The mail body is scanned for typical spam mail content, such as spam keywords, capitalized letters, or invitations to buy or click something.
Bayesian Filtering:
Bayesian filtering statistically calculates the probability that an inbound message is spam. Spam mails can be trained, so that similar mails are more likely to be identified as spam in the future.
Realtime DNS Blacklist (DNSBL, RBL) Checking:
Queries to DNSBL servers are used, e.g. to see if a mail has been submitted from a known open mail relay or notorious spam sender.
Multiple SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Blocklist) Checking:
Spammers want you to click on hyperlinks referring to their sites, so a lookup in a database of known spamadvertised sites has proven to be highly impactful in identifying spam mails. Similar to Realtime DNS Blacklists, SURBL (Spam URI Realtime Block Lists) checks will block messages that contain URIs in the message body that link to known spam hosts.
SPF (Sender Policy Framework) Support:
SPF is an emerging standard to detect forged "From" addresses in emails.
Automatic Whitelist Management:
SpamAssassin's Auto-Whitelist (AWL) tracks scores of regular correspondents to automatically identify legitimate sender addresses.
White and Black Lists:
White and Black lists can be used to configure which email addresses are permitted or denied.
The result of all these tests is added up to form a spam score. A mail is considered spam if the score exceeds a configurable threshold.
In the typical configuration, the subject of mail identified as spam is modified to flag it as spam mail, and a SpamAssassin report is added to the message. Now it is up to your mail client program (Outlook, Eudora etc,) to decide what to do. You can automatically delete spam mails, or move spam mails to a quarantine folder.
The outgoing mail path is left as is, mail is still directly delivered to your provider's SMTP server.
Virus Filtering with NoSpamToday!
NoSpamToday! has an integrated attachment blocker, and has built-in support for many third-party virus checkers, such as Clam AV, F-Prot Anti Virus, or McAfee VirusScan just to name a few.
Blocking malicious attachments
Most worms and viruses are spread by attachments. Getting rid of messages containing potentially malicious attachments before even starting virus checkers or spam filters can be very helpful to reduce system load.
Virus Protection
NoSpamToday! can be configured to run a third party virus checker before a mail is accepted. Virus mails are rejected and deleted.
Every virus checker that offers a command line interface can be integrated into NoSpamToday!. The license of this email software is Free Trial Software, the price is $39.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of No Spam Today! for Workstations, you can buy this email software.

