Purify

Purify is a lightweight Windows application whose purpose is to help you filter your emails so your inbox won’t get clogged up with spam messages. You may trace and report spam.

The program employs the Naive Bayes filtering techniques for detecting spam email. It is based on filtering emails by custom words.

Taking into account that Purify is portable, you can keep it stored on USB flash drives or other devices and carry it with you. You can access the tool’s GUI by opening the executable file because there’s no setup included in the process.

The main window looks minimalist and easy to work with. Several configuration settings are hidden under the hood. The setup parameters don’t look highly intuitive so rookies may need extra time to decode them. A help manual is included in the package in case you want to find out more about the program’s capabilities.

You can make the application collect email messages for learning to differentiate between spam and good emails, remove the stored messages that are used in the training sessions, and mark as spam any emails containing pictures that are not sent by your friends.

What’s more, the tool lets you store abusive email for spam reporting, forward emails that are not rated as spam to a custom address, compress database, and enable debugging.

A brand-new email account can be configured by providing information about the description, type (POP, POP SSL, IMAP, IMAP SSL), email address, local server name, port, remote port, and other parameters.

The program gives you the possibility to keep a list with friends and expressions that are not considered as spam. You may import data from plain text file format.

You can create a blacklist, which helps you block spam based on user-defined expressions, and ignore emails using a custom set of words.

Purify helps you block emails by country. It comes with a database of various locations that you can quickly enable or disable. You can teach the utility to distinguish between bad and good emails. Last but not least, you may generate reports with the spammers.

Purify comes packed with several handy features for helping you filter your email messages. However, it hasn’t been updated for a long time so you may bump into compatibility issues on newer operating systems like Windows 8.