Jenny
02-02-2003, 11:02 AM
I have been getting close to 50 spam emails a day, mostly pr0n ( :shrug: ). It was getting tiresome, considering I had close to 20 filters in my email and it still wasn't getting rid of most of it. Now, I'm not getting any! :D
I don't remember how I came across it (someone recommended it in a forum I was reading :blush: ) but this program is called MailWasher. http://www.mailwasher.net/
It is FANTASTIC! You can keep it open all day, minimized to your taskbar, out of the way. You put in your email stuff (you can import it from your regular email program - and it works with multiple accounts. I have 10 it checks...), then it logs on to the server. In the window, it will bring up all the email that you have not downloaded from the server yet. You can click on them to preview the message. You can set it to 3 levels, which will determine how they will mark messages. I have it set to medium, so it marks things as probable spam for deletion, bouncing (which will make the spam sender think your email is invalid), and blacklisting (which will automatically delete emails from that sender, I believe. Others, the medium level will mark as possible spam but not check them. Some slips through saying Normal, but I check them and then just check mark them to delete, bounce & blacklist.
Once you have checked all the stuff you want deleted (which doesn't have to be spam - for my work stuff, I have 7 email addresses that ALL get the same mail. So I can delete 6 copies of most of that email.), bounced & blacklisted, you choose Process Mail. If you have left some messages unchecked (your normal mail), it will finish processing the spam & whatnot, then open your regular email program (I use Eudora but didn't even have to tell it that, it just grabbed it.) and you download the other messages like normal.
You can set it to not check between X & X hours (I have it set not to check between 2-8 AM, just cause there is no point, since I'm not up). You can also add friends (whitelisting, I believe), so that when you get an email from them, it automatically marks them as legitimate. May make them easier to sort, depending on how much email you get at a time.
Anyway, that's my spiel. It is free to use, with 1 banner ad (just a message from the creator, not flashing or annoying or anything). You can also donate any amount of money you want to and it will register you and you can put in the registration number it gives you and the banner disappears. I donated $10 because I love the program so much. :)
I don't remember how I came across it (someone recommended it in a forum I was reading :blush: ) but this program is called MailWasher. http://www.mailwasher.net/
It is FANTASTIC! You can keep it open all day, minimized to your taskbar, out of the way. You put in your email stuff (you can import it from your regular email program - and it works with multiple accounts. I have 10 it checks...), then it logs on to the server. In the window, it will bring up all the email that you have not downloaded from the server yet. You can click on them to preview the message. You can set it to 3 levels, which will determine how they will mark messages. I have it set to medium, so it marks things as probable spam for deletion, bouncing (which will make the spam sender think your email is invalid), and blacklisting (which will automatically delete emails from that sender, I believe. Others, the medium level will mark as possible spam but not check them. Some slips through saying Normal, but I check them and then just check mark them to delete, bounce & blacklist.
Once you have checked all the stuff you want deleted (which doesn't have to be spam - for my work stuff, I have 7 email addresses that ALL get the same mail. So I can delete 6 copies of most of that email.), bounced & blacklisted, you choose Process Mail. If you have left some messages unchecked (your normal mail), it will finish processing the spam & whatnot, then open your regular email program (I use Eudora but didn't even have to tell it that, it just grabbed it.) and you download the other messages like normal.
You can set it to not check between X & X hours (I have it set not to check between 2-8 AM, just cause there is no point, since I'm not up). You can also add friends (whitelisting, I believe), so that when you get an email from them, it automatically marks them as legitimate. May make them easier to sort, depending on how much email you get at a time.
Anyway, that's my spiel. It is free to use, with 1 banner ad (just a message from the creator, not flashing or annoying or anything). You can also donate any amount of money you want to and it will register you and you can put in the registration number it gives you and the banner disappears. I donated $10 because I love the program so much. :)