Hello Innuendo,

Great review!  (check your DonationCredits)  I have always held a "worker is worth his wages" and you obviously put a lot of work into this review.  I enjoyed reading it very much.  Given this is only your first review, perhaps you should consider developing your technical review skills to a professional end?  One of the most important aspects of writing is the ability to do so using what is called your, "real voice."  As I read your review, I could "hear" you "speaking," even though I have never really heard the sound of your voice.  Many at DC possess this ability, but f0dder, Darwin, Mouser, zriddling, app103 and Wordzilla excel in "speaking" in their missives, but I digress. 

As it turns out, I installed the trial version of the AntiSpamSniper into my TB! the very day you posted your review.  Talk about timing, how fortunate am I!  Also, I have to say how much I appreciate your willingness to provide "service after the sale," so to speak.  I am sure I will have some questions, but I plan to re-read your review in conjunction with whatever help files exist before I unload the salvo on you.

Just to note - I used the discount code successfully to purchase a license for the Bat! version but the code was refused for the Outlook version... 

Vetaltm, I do hope my mini-review drummed up some business for you and helped get the word out on a wonderful (and powerful) plugin.

BTW - I'm very impressed with AntiSpam Sniper  I bought it because SpamBayes has gotten increasingly flaky under Vista-64/Outlook 2007 (to the point where I have to uninstall/reinstall it every time I re-start my computer) and ran the trial - it captured spam messages that I NEVER managed to convince SpamBayes were spam. These are messages that my isp inserts (Telus detected SPAM) at the beginning of the subject. I've been flagging them as spam for years with SpamBayes and it never learns. Other than that, it's been brilliant! At any rate, I digress: Antispam Sniper is a fine bit of code indeed! Thanks, Vitaly and Innuendo 

Thanks, Vitaly! I went ahead and purchased the Outlook license as well... However, Plimus is "reviewing" my order - I suspect because I used the same credit card for a second purchase quite soon after the first (?).

It is a fraud check control, which is a bit paranoid on Plimus. But don't worry, in worst case it takes no longer than a few hours.

A link to this article is already on the plug-in's webpage, so anyone can read your review as a complementary description.

Oh, wow! That's so cool...not only am I now famous, but hopefully I'll be able to bring in some cross-traffic to both your site and DonationCoder.

And there's no need to thank me. You have one of the most powerful anti-spam programs around, IMHO. I'm just happy I was able to shine a little spotlight on it to bring it to the attention of others.

The advanced settings, e.g. RegExp based rules, are useful for those who receive hundreds ... of spam messages every day. Using the customized set of rules it is possible to block most of spam on the server ....

Supporting regexp is very important when configuration a spam scanner for automatic deletion. With any other method, you can have false positives. But a skilled person that understands the mechanics of e-mail headers (and regexp's) can craft a regexp looking for a particular spammer's signature method of hiding his return path in the header. In these cases, you can safely delete his spam.

Regexp's can work other ways. For example, I use the regexp

regexp{  Date:[^+-]+(\+[01].|-.[0-29]).0  }

to test for foreign time zones like +0100. Time zones in the US run between -0400 and -0800 generally. Of course, not all foreign email is spam, so this needs to be ANDed with other rules.

Ouch! That's pretty much all of Europe, except for the UK, Ireland and Portugal. That "and" condition had better be good

Well, I'm sure the "and" condition is "And sender does not equal 'tranglos'"