BlackBerry of spam with Antair Spam Filter Live

It has been more than two years since we went over a way to filter spam using Gmail. This isn’t the most involved process, but it is a process nonetheless. You have to basically filter your email through a Gmail account, which filters spam pretty well. It’s not perfect by any means, but it does help keep those “Endeavor to use it for the children of God” emails off your BlackBerry. If you prefer, though, you can use an effective application to perform a similar function.

Antair Spam Filter is basically the BlackBerry standard for keeping spam away from your inbox. The messages still get delivered to your BlackBerry, but before they can make your LED blink Antair intercepts them. They then get stored in memory for a bit, so that you can check and make sure a real message didn’t get caught in the filter. Users also have the ability to set up whitelists and blacklists, which makes the filter even more effective.

Here’s an interesting feature: the filter can also block spoofed emails. You might notice these from time to time. They’re messages that appear to have been sent from your own email address. Apparently they can also come from email addresses in your contacts list, though I haven’t noticed that in my own email. They’re harmless, really — I know I didn’t send the email to myself — but it’s nice to have them filtered out.
The app, of course, isn’t free. Well, it is at first. You can get a free 30-day trial of Antair Spam Filter Live. That should give you an idea of how well the app works. After that, however, it costs $3.95 per month or $39.95 if you prepay for the year. Is that a worthy cost considering the free Gmail spam filter? That’s up to the individual user. As you can see, the first comment on the Gmail spam filter post actually advocates the more expensive, but simpler, Antair Spam Filter. If you are interested, it works with both BIS and BES devices, and is compatible with OS versions 4.2 and up.