Wednesday, April 27, 2005
A big shout out to Sean True and all the guys at inboxer.com , a spam solution that has saved me so much time on the road. I have been on the road most of this year and for days at a time so I have actually had a need to get at my email whilst out of the office so I found my self wading through hundreds of junk headers to find the important messages - previously in the office I used a mix of mozilla/thunderbird (Effective once trained) , and Outlook with it's junk filter (started off well but tails off prior to the infrequent updates). What I needed was something that could zap the junk and ideally forward the good stuff to another 'clean' account where I could access it using a webmail solution or my MS SmartPhone.
After a bit of a search I found inboxer which is an outlook plugin that zaps spam it uses a bayesian/teach it yourself approach which starts being effective very quickly. inboxer has its own plugins which allow you to do exactly what I wanted the one I use is called popboxer and can forward good email (and usefully review messages so you don't find that an important message has been in your junk pile all week) or delete junk from your pop3 mailbox. There is also a plugin for Blackberry users so they can get clean email too.
The customer service is excellent with a very quick response to questions and frequent new releases with more functionality.
Inboxer is a snip at $50 for inboxer and the popboxer & blackberry plugins , the timesaving alone will pay for itself quickly whilst for those of us here in Europe suffering exorbitant mobile phone data charges ($1.50-$10 a Mb!) will find that a couple of weeks of junk headers saved will pay for it.
Before you all ask I don't work for inboxer and I paid for my copy !!
After a bit of a search I found inboxer which is an outlook plugin that zaps spam it uses a bayesian/teach it yourself approach which starts being effective very quickly. inboxer has its own plugins which allow you to do exactly what I wanted the one I use is called popboxer and can forward good email (and usefully review messages so you don't find that an important message has been in your junk pile all week) or delete junk from your pop3 mailbox. There is also a plugin for Blackberry users so they can get clean email too.
The customer service is excellent with a very quick response to questions and frequent new releases with more functionality.
Inboxer is a snip at $50 for inboxer and the popboxer & blackberry plugins , the timesaving alone will pay for itself quickly whilst for those of us here in Europe suffering exorbitant mobile phone data charges ($1.50-$10 a Mb!) will find that a couple of weeks of junk headers saved will pay for it.
Before you all ask I don't work for inboxer and I paid for my copy !!
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Nearly 4 months since last post
It's true about blogs having a flurry of activity and then disappearing , I had forgotten my user name to get in and nearly forgotten the name of the blog!
A Lot has happened in the last four months have been working near Sunny Bognor Regis on the south coast of England since mid-january , its been great fun , a long (300 mile) but enjoyable drive , staying away from home a few days each week has really helped me get up to date on some coding , in particular my SmartPhone app and a lot of Java work on Quest tidying/optimizing and a new charting routine using easycharts.
Hope everyone else is having a great year too.
PS Hugo the puppy is alive and well and didn't get eaten by the other dogs!
Richard
A Lot has happened in the last four months have been working near Sunny Bognor Regis on the south coast of England since mid-january , its been great fun , a long (300 mile) but enjoyable drive , staying away from home a few days each week has really helped me get up to date on some coding , in particular my SmartPhone app and a lot of Java work on Quest tidying/optimizing and a new charting routine using easycharts.
Hope everyone else is having a great year too.
PS Hugo the puppy is alive and well and didn't get eaten by the other dogs!
Richard
