In short, Kill Mail is a tool that deletes unwanted mail from your mailbox according to the rules you define. Rules are your instructions that explain to the program which mail you want to receive and what is spam or virus infected mail. Being instructed this way, the program accesses your mailbox and deletes everything that fits the "bad mail" category and leaves everything else intact. Next, you run your regular mail client and receive mail that survived the cleanup performed by Kill Mail. If you discover that something bad has slipped into your mailbox (for example, when a new generation of a virus appears on the Internet), you don't have to download any program updates, service packs, reference lists etc. You simply correct your set of rules and this new nuisance ceases to exist for you.

Not at all. Without any doubts, there are lots of similar programs. Nevertheless, we decided to write our own. First of all, Kill Mail is fast, much faster that anything we've seen. Second, it does not download any mail to your computer for local analysis, thus dramatically reducing your traffic and time you spend online (recall my story about 10.000 virus infected messages and you'll understand that this is important). Third, it's (more or less, you know...) free of bugs. Fourth, it's completely free for use. Fifth, due to the fact that the program implements and uses plugins, its functionality may be widely extended even by a third-party developers. And last but not least, mail management is such an important thing so we could not entrust this crucial task to anybody else.

In any case, we suggest you to try Kill Mail too, chances are you'll like it as much as we like it.

SpamPal is a free advanced spam filtering software that implements a completely different spam detection strategy. It detects spam by querying huge Internet databases of known spammers. The only problem with SpamPal is that it is really sloooow. Combining the power of both programs - SpamPal and Kill Mail - you can achieve extraordinary spam protection.

As an extra bonus, Kill Mail knows how to deploy SpamPal advanced mail filtering features and does this much more seamlessly than any other SpamPal aware mail client. For example, you can bypass SpamPal in a single keypress. Also, Kill Mail can load SpamPal when necessary and unload it when its no longer needed.

Windows 98/ME, Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003.
Screen resolution should be 800x600 or higher.
Any number of POP3 accounts.

Please note that currently Kill Mail works only with POP3 mail accounts. IMAP accounts are not supported.

Kill Mail comes with an automatic installation program with full uninstall support so this should not be a problem. Just download the program from the link above and execute the installation program. Use Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs applet to uninstall the program.

In any case, please rest assured that we don't write anything into the system registry (except for the information necessary for uninstallation) or system folders.

Yes, Kill Mail uses plugins (Ta-da!..). This means that its functionality can be easily extended with relatively small and simple software modules. Great news is that this can be done even by a third-party developers who usually don't have access to the source code of the main program.

If you're going to write a plugin for Kill Mail, just download Kill Mail Plugin SDK from the link above. It contains all the necessary information and header files required to develop plugins in C/C++ or Assembly languages. In addition, the SDK contains full source code of some plugins included in the main package.

Thank you for this question. Well, writing software takes time. In case of freeware applications the only "reward" the programmer receives back is often just a bunch of mail messages asking (sometimes demanding) to explain completely obvious things (s)he needs to answer and nothing more. And the net result is rather predictable: "Wish I never write and publish this program!". Eventuallly, the author loses any interest towards his program and completely stops developing it.

If you don't want this to happen, you can help us in a variety of ways. First of all, you can consider purchasing one of our commercial programs. Second, you can donate us some amount of money. Third, any corrections and enhancements to the contents of this site and software documentation are greatly appreciated. Also, if you are a professional artist or graphic designer you can help us with graphic elements (icons, bitmaps, backgrounds etc.) for our programs.