Spamato anti spam solution for email clients
Spamato is a free software that was developed in Java which can be used to detect and delete email spam. It is compatible with popular email clients such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook, and ships with interesting features that may convince you to replace your current anti-spam tool.
The developers of the application have created custom versions for select email clients, and are also offering a standalone version for others that are not supported directly.
This standalone version acts as a mail proxy that all email traffic flows through in either direction, so that it can intercept spam messages before they arrive in the email client.
An extension was created for Thunderbird for instance which can be installed just like any other extension available which means that you have to download the file, open Thunderbird, go to Tools > Add-ons and select the file after clicking on install. Outlook users can download an add-on for Outlook which installs the anti-spam solution in Microsoft's email program.
The developer suggest to disable the default spam filter in both programs if you want to stick with Spamato. You can do that in the Account options in Thunderbird by disabling all options under Junk controls. Spamato is doing a good job from what I can tell. I have been using the extension for Thunderbird for just one day so it might be a bit early to judge it correctly but it looks to handle spam superbly.
Spamato creates a folder of the same name when it is installed where all detected spam is moved into. Oh, you do need Java to run Spamato. Sometimes you will have to located the Java executable by yourself and add it manually to the options of the extension.
Everything is well explained and it should not be a problem to locate the javaw.exe file. That is of course only the case if you have Java installed on your system. If you do not, you need to download and install it first before you can start to use the anti-spam solution on your system.
The last update dates back a bit which means that it may no longer work correctly in newer versions of mail clients. Note that some versions require an early version of Microsoft's .Net Framework to be installed, which is another indicator that the program has been abandoned by its developer team.
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You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!