Win a spam free iPad 2 with SpamDrain

The all-new SpamDrain is here!
We have now launched a brand new version SpamDrain. It is based on the same great technology as before but it has a new look and it is super easy to use.

Win a spam free iPad 2

We want the world hear the great news and try the new app. We have therefore decided to hold a competition here on Facebook. If 1000 persons or more like us before the end of May we will give an iPad 2 with WiFi + 3G to the person who is best at guessing how many spam we catch this month.

You can guess as many times as you like and we will be giving some clues here on the wall.

Lets stop that spam!

Win your spam free iPad 2.

Updates – report/retrieve in lists and pausing filtering

Yesterday we made some updates which hopefully will continue to improve the experience of SpamDrain. We added the possibility to report or retrieve directly in the message lists (Archive and Report), so you do not need to click the message in order to report it. The Report button appears once you hover over the row. Note that you will not need to confirm the reporting so before you click, be sure you really wish to report it as spam.


We also added the hover feature in other lists, so actions appears once you move your mouse over the row. In the filtered address lists, for example, you will now see the Delete icon and the new Pause icon when moving the mouse over the row. Pause filtering is a new feature we have added to give you more control over your SpamDrain account.

Clicking the Pause button will pause the filtering for this address. Once paused, SpamDrain will stop accessing your e-mail account. If you are using domain filtering, SpamDrain will simply let everything through for the paused address.

Once paused, a Play icon is displayed instead which once clicked will start the filtering again.

This pause feature is useful if you have problem with your e-mail access and want to see if SpamDrain is locking your mailbox or if you simply wish to go back to the good old times when tons of spam reached your inbox 😉

We have also made some minor improvements in the login and sign up user interface.

The next few weeks we will continue working with minor improvements and adding help documentation where needed.

Feel free to comment the changes we made recently. Your opinion is the most valuable we have!

New website and webapp released

The last couple of months we have been working on improving the webapp. The goal has been to make it easier to get started with SpamDrain and making it even more easier to use than before.

Today we finally made the first step launching the a new SpamDrain. We will be making quite a few more improvements the coming months. Please feel free to give us feedback!

With the release today, we also introduce two levels of SpamDrain: SpamDrain and SpamDrain+. Please read more on our website:

spamdrain.net

Network maintanance work in datacenter

There will be some maintanance work on network infrastructure in one of the SpamDrain data centers the coming two nights (CET time):

Wednesday 03/16/2011 between 0:30am and 6:00am CET (UTC/GMT +1 hour)

Thursday 03/17/2011 between 0:30am and 6:00am CET (UTC/GMT +1 hour)

This should not affect SpamDrain as redundant systems will maintain normal service during this time. Should you still experience problems during this time please be patient. Things should go back to normal at least after 8am.

Support closed for holidays

Our support will be closed during the holidays and re-opens again January 10 2011. Phone support will be closed and we will only answer urgent support cases via e-mail.

We wish you all a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We will donate 0,01 SEK for each blocked spam this week


This week the charity event Musikhjälpen is being held in Malmö, Sweden. Swedish Radio and Swedish Television run the event and raise money for children’s rights under the parole “Children are not for sale”.

SpamDrain has decided to donate 1 öre (0,01 SEK) for each spam we block during the week of the event. A normal week we block about 700 000 spam.

Amount to be donated (now final):

SEK 6883,34



counter will stop at 2010-12-19 when Musikhjälpen ends.

Remember, children are not for sale!

More info: www.musikhjalpen.se (Swedish).

Expert warns of insufficient virus protection

There is an interesting article on viruses and filters in a Swedish newspaper today. Experts warn us that some filters are not efficient enough. They claim that some filters only catch 30% of the harmful e-mails. The reason for this being that the virus makers are quick at making new version and varieties of the code so it is hard to keep a traditional filter updated.
At SpamDrain we use artificial intelligence to continually refine the filtering process. This means that the filter can ‘learn’ what is spam and what is valid e-mail. The filter can therefore keep itself updated and quickly learn new tricks used by hackers to get their e-mails through spam filters.
This works quite nicely in Spamdrain when filtering spam and e-mail viruses. It would though be interesting to know if one could do something similar with desktop virus protection. I know that anti-virus companies have done some efforts in trying to “learn” the patterns of viruses and block viruses they don’t know about, but it’s unclear how well these techniques work.

New Android application available in Market

We are proud to announce that SpamDrain for Android 1.1 now is available in Market. Go to Market and search for spamdrain in your phone or simply wait for the automatic notification in Android.
With this new version you will now be able to access your filtered messages.

New features in 1.1:

  • View archive which contains blocked messages.
  • Deliver blocked messages to inbox.
  • View filtered but not blocked messages.
  • Report missed spam.
  • Better support for different screen sizes.

What are you waiting for – go to Market and upgrade!

Feel free to rate us and write an excellent review.
If you find a bug, tell us instead and we will fix it :-).

Some screen shots:

SpamDrain-ScreenShot-RegistrationSpamDrain-ScreenShot-Home SpamDrain-ScreenShot-Archive SpamDrain-ScreenShot-EmailView

SpamDrain QR code