*Qurb works like CallerID for e-mail. During installation, Qurb scans your contacts folder and your e-mail folders to create a list of approved senders with whom you communicate.
As you work with your e-mail, Qurb automatically updates this list continuously. E-mail from people you know is delivered directly to your inbox; all other e-mail is quarantined, awaiting further review or automatic deletion.
List of approved senders is automatically created and updated as you work with your e-mail.*
It works well, but the trial period is almost up, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a freeware product that operates the same way?
I have no idea if there is a freeware alternative, but I’d like to say that I use it and it works great.
Virtually all of the email I receive is from people already on my approved senders list, so for me, it’s easy to go through the quarantined mail folder and find the one or two messages a month that I actually wanted. But if you regularly receive mail from people unknown to you (say if you’re the editorial page editor of the newspaper), it will work less well, since a lot of legitimate mail will get quarantined.
My email address is in the form of [first initial][lastname]@domain.com, so I just search for messages that include my actual first name. Only someone who actually knows me would actually include that in the message.
Sorry to babble on, but it does work well, and I would also like to know if there is a freeware alternative.
this website does all of what youwant this software to do, but it does it internally, check it out, its free, ive used it for about a year and hardly have any problems,
only problem is that youd obviously have to give up your current address, so it could only work for personal, not work
If you’re not averse to giving up your address, gmail seems to have an excellent integrated spam blocker. I have not once had a piece of spam sent to my inbox, and have also never had a piece of real mail filtered into the spam trap.
Of course it keeps both, in case you need to be sure.
As far as an add-on type of thing, though, I have no idea.