Cloudmark - best antispam solution now available for Thunderbird

krishna

Well, the first public Beta at any rate. I've used Cloudmark before and it is incredibly effective. Yes you normally have to pay for it (around £25 a year) but if you have a bad spam problem, Cloudmark will almost certainly deal with it. The main problem has been that it's only available for Outlook and Outlook Express. We were looking to shift away from Thunderbird at work purely in order to be able to use Cloudmark. Well, now, finally, they have released a public Beta for Thunderbird. I've just installed it and it is amazing! Tested it out on some mail I've been accumulating in one of my accounts and it removed 408 spam emails with no false positives and no false negatives.

Try it out for free for two months at http://www.cloudmark.com/desktop/publicbeta/

I'd better stop as I'm beginning to sound like I work for them, but I don't; I've just been waiting for them to embrace Thunderbird for a long time.

buglawton

Apparently Cloudmark costs £25/year, and cannot be transferred between PCs. Nowadays I am finding that my Virgin Media email system is in any case filtering out 90% of spam correctly.

krishna

The £25 a year gets you a license for two PCs.

superscaper

Probably worth putting in the effort of creating unique email addresses then. Save you having to do any spam filtering at all.

krishna

I use yahoo Addressguard for my personal emails, which effectively gives me loads of disposable addresses, but it's difficult at work. I run an information service and the email address is published on loads of websites and directories. So in the end effective spam filtering is essential.