Matador Reviewer's Comments

Please Note: This product has evolved into MailFrontier.

Matador 3.5's rich feature set will allow the user to fine-tune the filter categories to the desired specifications in order to block (or unblock) Spam email. Matador 3.5 reporting capability is very good; reports can viewed by Junk by Day, Reasons, Total History, or by Total Reasons. Matador 3.5 provides the user with the ability to challenge an email by sending email verification to test whether it is a legitimate email or junk.

Feature Set:  

Matador offers sliding message filter toolbar that will allow you to mark messages as junk mail by sexual content, offensive language, get rich quick schemes, gambling, and advertisements.

Ease of Use:  

Matador is easy to use. After installation, three buttons are placed in your email client's toolbar that will allow you to mark messages to be added to the junk mail folder, unjunk a message from the junk mail folder, or mark the message for approval.

Ease of Installation:  

Matador is easy to setup and install. It installs directly to your email client allowing you to start using Matador immediately.

Stability:  

We didn't encounter any problems or errors when we used this product.

Customization:  

Matador lacks the customization abilities that some of the higher ranked products offer, but it provides a few options. You can customize settings for people, companies, messages, and even allow a mailing list of your choice. Matador also provides a graphical report of the junk mail received.

Spam Filtering:  

Matador relies on a unique filtering process that sends a graphical response back to the unknown message's email address. The sender will be required to respond to how many kittens they see in the image. If they respond, the sender will be added to your approved list. If you subscribe to mailing list this will become a problem. This will help you determine if the message came from a real person or a computer generated spammer. You can turn this option off if you are afraid of annoying your friends. It also filters based on a collaborative community. We also found that the product didn't catch what it should and blocked mails that it shouldn't have. More so than other products we reviewed.

Summary:  

Overall, Matador 3.5 is an average Spam filtering package. Accuracy of spam detection was not up to the competition. The interface is attractive and designed to be user-friendly, but the filtering process requires more monitoring of emails than other products.