The key highlights of i.Scribe are that it is free for everyone to use. No time limits, no nagging shareware banners or number of trials. Scribe has a built in bayesian spam filter that learns what type of email you consider to be "junk". Once it has a hundred or so spam to train on it can start filtering incoming spam automatically. As your collection of spam increases so does the accuracy of the bayesian filter. Until it reaches a maximum of about 98.5%. All the while producing very few if any false positives (i.e. wrongly classified mail you actually want to see). Scribe is also quite small, less than 1 MB to download. And even when downloaded takes up very little of your hard disk or memory while running. You can easily use Scribe from a portable drive like a USB flash card, so your email is as mobile as you are, especially if you don't have a computer of your own. The usually memory footprint is about 3-4 MB with a reasonable sized mail folder loaded. Great for those older machines that don't have large RAM and HD space. One of the key advantages of Scribe is that it runs in Windows and Linux. Allowing users to maintain all their email and contacts in one place. Run the version of scribe for the OS your running and access the email received in another OS.

However, if you want even more functionality, you can then use the commercial version InScribe. InScribe is the low cost, full strength version of i.Scribe. The full version offers these features on top of the features in i.Scribe:

    * Unlimited Send/Receive Accounts
You can configure and use many accounts with InScribe as opposed to the just one with i.Scribe. This allows you to receive mail from many sources and access groupware features like shared calendaring.

    * Unlimited Filtering
A simple filtering system can decide a course of action when mail is received. From moving it to another folder, deleting it, printing it out or auto-reply to it.

    * Multiple Identities
Each account allows you to use a unique identity to send and respond to mail with. When replying, InScribe automatically uses the identity associated with the account that the email was received through. So it's easy to keep your different roles separate.

    * Outlook (MAPI) Export
Replicate some or all of your email to an Outlook MAPI mail store. Great for users on the road that want to sync all there mail received on the road to their desktop running Outlook.

For more information and to download the Free i.Scribe, visit: http://www.memecode.com/scribe.php

For more information and to download the Commercial InScribe, visit: http://www.memecode.com/inscribe.php