Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Erroswe on April 20, 2008 ·

Didn't work at all for me

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by devtype on April 10, 2008 ·

Very effective. After taking a week to configure everything, your inbox will soon become your own personal sanction WITHOUT spam.

My only annoyance with this program is whenever you get email and Spamato detects it as spam, you hear the "Spam spam spam" song.

Anyone know how to turn it off?

Not yet rated

by hooly on April 4, 2008 ·

Trying it after bailing on ThunderBayes. So far so good, no outrageous Java load here.

Not yet rated

by amyc on April 1, 2008 ·

Works great...but...its a memory hog. But it sucks up too much memory with Java.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by clevelandrr on Nov. 10, 2007 ·

It does a very good job of getting rid of 95%+ of junk. However, it's a resource hog! On average, the Javaw process sucks up 90% or more of my CPU. That's the only problem I have with it.

Great tool, besides the resource hogging.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by Olaf Meierbier on Oct. 3, 2007 ·

Spamato itself is a good tool. It is a bit slow, but learns well.

By the way, the sound can be shut off in the web configuration menu.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by Tommy Morgan on Oct. 3, 2007 ·

False positives are far worse than false negatives and Spamato on my computer had a lot of false positives. I have manually revoked about 40 emails all with the same phrase in the subject. You'd think Spamato would learn that phrase means the message is ham, but it doesn't. I can't recommend this product.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by Chris Dermott on July 15, 2007 ·

Very slow to respond, I.e. I can dump the spam well before the application can.

I've asked the designers to update the application so that THE USER can dictate where the dumped SPAM goes to as I'm fed up of having to keep moving files from the Spamato folder into the trash - they're not listening!

The silly SPAM music is very irritating - no option to switch off.

That's it

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by al13 on June 14, 2007 ·

Great program but the Java implementation makes it slow and a resource hog. I removed it after trying it for a week.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

by ChuckMC on May 18, 2007 ·

I have been using Spamato4Thunderbird for a few weeks now. I find its great at getting rid of about 90 to 95 percent of Spam. But it took me a while to train the filters so for a few weeks I had a lot of False Spams and False Hams and I was about to give up. Its greatest short coming seems to be a lack of a Guide or documentation for the user to follow it would have helped to know how to use each configuration beyond the sparse comments in the browser configuration window. Something are cryptic/obscure -- i.e it took me the most part of the time I've been using Spamato to discover that all Spam was saved in a special Spamato folder in the Local folders. It would be nice to have a general overview of the Spamato process in a single document. but hey, its free and it works well once you take the time to explore its features and understand them better. I also do not like the HTML display of emails in the Spamato Browser configuration -- all the HTML code and the lack of graphics makes it too hard to determine the real text and decide if status needs changing. . I also can not determine if Spamato uses either my address book and/or the Thunderbird's own Junk Folder learning to screen for spam as white/black list source. But Over all I think this is a great system and does the best job I've seen to screen out spam than anything else I have used in the MS Windows arena.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

by The Sholva on May 11, 2007 ·

I like this. My only concern is that I had to specify an exact path to Java. I don't like the way Java updates always leave old folders behind and some observers cite this as a security loophole. That's an issue for the Java authors, but having to manually point Spamato directly to the current Java folder seems to me a bad idea as this will change regularly. Is not the current "live" Java path listed in the registry?