Earlier this month the company ClearMyMail announced a 100% guarantee for their ability to stop spam. They also claim to have a very low number of false positives. Your e-mail is processed on their servers although you can continue to access your e-mail as you always have. They claim to have an 18-stage process that can also detect image spam.
Seems to good to be true. Usually anything so tightly wound to catch all spam also gets a lot of false positives. I couldn’t find anything on their website to indicate what the 100% guarantee actually meant if spam got through. Refund? Free service? Over the weekend I sent off a query through the contact form on their wensite to ask what the guarantee meant. I’ll post an update when (or if) I get an answer.
Their service is priced ay $6/mth for pay as you go down to $64.95 for a two-year subscription. They’ll quote prices for more than one mailbox. There’s also a 30-day free trial.
Paying additional for anti-spam protection goes against the grain for me. For personal accounts I’d say look for an ISP that does a good job if possible. Or use two (or more mail accounts). One for friends and family, the other for everything else and use something with a pretty good spam filter (like GMail) for the everything else mailbox. But sometimes that’s not the best solution and if you e-mail address is business related you probably don’t want to change it. If that’s the case then something like ClearMyMail may be worth the cost.
Curiosity will probably have me try out the 30-day trial, but having just eliminated most of my spam by changing e-mail addresses it’s not something I’d be looking to subscribe to. Even if I hadn’t changed addresses I found that Yahoo, GMail and Pobox.com all did a good job of blocking the spam I was getting.