Trillian AB SpamDrain

Spamdrain works by telling the Spamdrain servers your email details, login etc.

The Spamdrain app simply allows you to setup your email account so that the servers can access it/them.

I use an android phone and windows PC.

The Android app is brilliant in showing what has been received and allowed or n

Blocked. It is easy to release a falsly blocked email or block unwanted mail.

Because it only scans your mail once it is in your inbox, it is possible to open a received mail before it has been scanned, but this is rare.

I feel in control of my mailbox again

Downloaded the ProVersion via AppStore. Works great and now I can block spams and allow the newsletters I want to receive. Quick support in English (think company is Swedish?)

I have been using SpamSieve for quite a while on my iMac at home to combat the tons of spam I receive daily (around 80 spam emails a day per account, with a total of 3 accounts in my family).

This helped me keep email out of my ipad/iphone when I was travelling as long as I left my mac on. This is quite costly and not the best method as over time the continuous heat and power consumption can prematurely age your mac and the electricity cost can be material.

SO I was looking for a service that could run as a 'task' on my Synology network drives as those are effectively always alive/on. I could not find that but found the next best thing: SpamDrain. It runs on the Trillian servers and catches Spam pretty efficiently (and efficiency improves fast). After a 3 week trial I decided that it was the better solution over SpamSieve as I had to run NO local software, keep my mac on etc and it turned out to actually be more accurate after 3 weeks:SpamSieve would incorrectly classify good emails that SpamDrain passed through and remove them to the SS folder. Anyhoo: I shelled out for 3 accounts (my wife, my personal and a shared gmail account): 14.99$ per account per year for SpamDrain standard (very few people would need the SD+ version at 29.99$ and account).

And that is also why I removed the 1 star: If you have a family with kids it becomes pretty expensive (all relative). Again, one could state that a little over 1 dollar a month per account is a great deal, but with kids etc you could end up paying 5 to 6$ month and that is maybe a little rich.

I would love to see a package feature for say 50$ a year up to 6 account or some sort of tiered pricing.

Still, I went ahead and signed up and do not regret it: muy emails are nearly flawless and I am not hogging ipad or iphone data bandwidth with downloading thousands of bad spam mails. I finally feel I am close to perfect on the solution.

If only Synology would create that diskstation app..

I find SpamDrain a perfect anti-spam service, since it removes both spam and viruses before they reach the inbox. This is useful when checking your mail using your mobile phone, as you never need to download the junk to the phone. SpamDrain is rather easy to setup, but you need to check the instructions carefully so you don't mix up the different usernames and passwords etc.

Briefly, in order to start using SpamDrain you give SpamDrain your incoming email server and username, and then change the settings in your email client so you're retrieving your email from a SpamDrain server using your special SpamDrain-username. SpamDrain will then filter all emails as you check your email through their servers.