SpamBully

SpamBully is a Windows add-in that screens incoming email for junk inside desktop mail programs. It works with Outlook, including Office 365 and older Office releases, as well as Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail. Each time mail is downloaded, it combines artificial intelligence with server blacklists to keep wanted messages in the inbox.

What SpamBully offers

• Spam filtering — separates good mail from junk at every download.
• Allow and block lists — rules by address, word or phrase, country, language or IP address, with address book contacts always let through.
• Challenge and report — asks unknown senders to type a password, bounces spam and reports it to source servers and the FTC.
• Blackhole list checks — filters mail from domains listed on realtime spam blacklists.
• Phishing detection — flags links in messages from possibly fraudulent sources.
• Statistics — graphs plus per-message details explaining why each email was or was not blocked.

Who it works with

People who read email in Microsoft desktop mail clients on Windows.

Key facts

• Platform: Windows
• Mail clients: Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail
• Customers: more than 50,000, according to the company