What is ASpam ? 
ASpam is a
free anti-Spam software, written by a Spam-victim. Run periodically on your PC
or directly on the mail server, it 'cleans' your mailbox from undesirable mail
such as advertisements, chain letters, etc.
What is special about
ASpam ?
Contrary to
other anti-spam tools, ASpam's philosophy is to both delete 'spam' emails and
to notify the sender about the action taken (notification can be switched off).
This assures you that no mail gets 'lost', because it is mistakenly taken for
Spam by some automatic filter.
ASpam also
allows you to distribute a 'key', which will assure that email from known users
is never refused. You can also declare a list of 'trusted' users (e.g.
everybody you ever sent an email to). These users will never see their email
refused by ASpam. The discomfort usually caused by automatic filters is thus
highly reduced.
The
behaviour of ASpam can be fine-tuned with the help of a set of configuration
files. A log file lets you trace what exactly ASpam does, and the text of
automatically sent email may be edited. You decide how tolerant, polite or
aggressive ASpam works for you.
And, yes,
it is for free and does not contain any annoying advertisements popping up and
blinking all over the place.
More information
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), limitations
I
appreciate your feedback, including bug reports, hints to other (better ?) free
tools, suggestions for improvements, encouragements, etc. Note, however, that I
do this on my free time and without being paid, which somehow reduces my
motivation (sorry). Given the limited duration of my coffee breaks, week-ends
and nights, please understand that I cannot answer all email or be very
reactive. Please use the word ‘ASpam’ in the subject of your mail, to disturb
my professional activity as few as possible. And don’t be surprised to get an
automatic reply, telling you that you have to send the message again with a key
;-).
Thanks
To Thierry
Charlier de Chily for beta-testing.
To PHD
Computer Consultants Ltd for their great PhDEmail
COM component.
Werner Keilholz
Last Update: 21/03/2006
