As if to reinforce my impression that X1 is grabbing the indexing and searching space once the preserve of Enfish, the Idealab company has just launched a beta edition of its next version. The full version should be out soon. New features: * Improved Attachments tab (for Outlook and Eudora users only) * Improved Eudora… Read More »
Fears that the next U.S. presidential election is going to be a spamfest has helped launch a Political Spam Hall of Shame. If you receive a political spam, particularly for a national campaign where the winner gets to go live in Washington DC, (and particularly if you don’t actually live in the U.S. or are… Read More »
Yet another spam option: Starfield Technologies, Inc., sister company of domain registrar GoDaddy.com, has announced Spam Xploder which uses Bayesian filtering technology to intercept spam at the server level before reaching a user’s mailbox. Spam Xploder works with several e-mail programs, including Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express. Folk with Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, or any IMAP- or POP3-based… Read More »
If you’ve got a lot of email accounts, and access them from different kinds of gadgets, Danamail may interest you. It’s a new service that “lets you read and reply to all your email, from all your addresses, on any Internet-ready device, wherever you are. Danamail consolidates all your email messages and attachments… Read More »
This from reader Rulf Neigenfind about Windows, Macs and Spam: “You have certainly heard about the built-in mail client in Mac OS X that comes with an AI equipped spam filter. This filter uses “adaptive latent semantic analysis” to identify junk mail and works amazingly well. Once more I can only state how lucky I… Read More »