The Bottom Line
- G-Lock SpamCombat can filter spam precisely
- Combines DNS blacklists and Bayesian filtering and looks for spurious HTML
- G-Lock SpamCombat supports POP accounts only, can't work as proxy
- The interface, overloaded and looking more difficult than it is, can be a bit confusing
- G-Lock SpamCombat's message preview not ideal
Description
- G-Lock SpamCombat lets you filter multiple POP email accounts for spam.
- Using Bayesian filtering, HTML analysis and DNS blacklists, G-Lock SpamCombat detects most spam.
- Additionally, G-Lock SpamCombat lets you set up highly flexible regular expression filters.
- You can preview and re-classify messages easily and securely in G-Lock SpamCombat.
- G-Lock SpamCombat can check your accounts periodically, optionally deleting mail sure to be spam.
- Email account data import from Outlook, Outlook Express and other email clients makes setup easy.
- G-Lock SpamCombat supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.
Guide Review - G-Lock SpamCombat 2.50 - Free Spam Filter
Unfortunately, G-Lock SpamCombat only does this for POP email accounts, and can't do it transparently by working as a proxy. This means you have to check your mail twice, first in SpamCombat, then — only the good mail — your email client.
While you can set up very flexible white and black lists in G-Lock SpamCombat using regular expressions, this can be a bit involved and probably is not for everybody.
Fortunately, you don't need this kind of filtering. Once you have trained the Bayesian engine, it will detect just about all spam reliably.
It's a pity that training isn't too easy either, mostly due to the somewhat overloaded interface and the simple message preview that can make judging emails quickly difficult. It also seemed that the Bayesian filter did not learn from the other filters' decisions, so it's probably best to use it exclusively to make sure you're really profiting from it.
