Spam is an unnecessary evil of modern business. It effects our profits and productivity more than we probably expect. It can be the cause of unnecessary time wasted sorting through and deleting spam e-mail, if not worse issues like losing valid e-mails amongst the clutter.

Some of the most effective tools in being an anti spam office are spam appliances and spam blockers. Spam appliances are actually hardware tools that monitoring incoming e-mail and perform complex algorithms to determine what is spam and what isn’t.

Some common spam appliances are:

• Barracuda Spam Filter
• SecPoint Protector
• AstroSecurity Spam Filter

However these spam appliances are very expensive not to mention difficult to setup and maintain. There are some high quality alternatives in terms of software and services — however we have found an easy yet effective way that is completely free.

Free Spam Filtering with out a Spam Appliance

You may be familiar with the company / service gmail.com. GMail actually has some of the best spam filtering available due to how they grown and maintain their spam filter list. With out violating any basic privacy issues Gmail monitors all of it’s users and what they mark as spam. It then builds a very complex database of spam sources, algorithms and identifiers.

You can use this database to your advantage! Because google is not only free, you can forward all of your e-mail into your gmail account. It will scan and filter out spam for you. From there you can either opt to check your gmail account or forward it to a different e-mail account you wish to reply from. Wholla! Free spam filter with out a spam appliance or spam blocker - and it only takes a few minutes to setup and there is no maintenance to this spam blocker.

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