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MailWasher
by printman Tried the trial version of Mailwasher Pro and at the end of the 30 day trial I purchased the full version with a credit card at which point the Mailwasher site assured me that I would receive a registration # immediately. In spite of my sending in 5 emails, I have yet to have a reply. I no longer can use MailwasherPro and I am out ... $37. At least I can file a complaint with American Express, but who needs all the hassle. I would assume that their tech support is equally unresponsive Read the complete review |
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MailWasher
by TheChocolateLady Well, I see not everyone was convinced by my Sneakemail review that they might need to hide their real email address from potentially spam inflicting websites. But I have to disagree. Over the years, I opened myself up to getting large amounts of spam by giving out my real email address to places on the Internet, such as newsgroups and ... websites. Since most web-based email programs are nothing more than honey to spam bees, I've stopped using most of those as well (even my brand new G-mail account gets spam - but their filter is wonderful). So when a friend told me about Mailwasher, I decided to give it a try, and I quickly felt that the number of pieces of spam I was getting in my in-box began to reduce to practically nothing. Mailwasher is freely downloadable from Mailwasher.net (http://www.mailwasher.net) which has information about the program and will forward you to www.Download.com for downloading the program. You get an executable file from this site, which when you run it, will open a new program folder on your computer to hold the program and three other small files needed for proper running of the program. No big deal, right? Now, they say you should have 4MB RAM and 4MB hard disk space to use the program. Still no big deal. But wait until you hear what this "no big deal" actually does! If you're like me, you have a regular email address through your ISP (Internet Service Provider). When I want to go on the Internet or check my email, I dial up to them, give them my username and password, and start downloading my mail through my email program - and down comes from my ISP all my mail along with all those horrid pieces of spam. That was, until I started using Mailwasher. What happens when I use Mailwasher? Well, I dial up to my ISP as usual but instead of going straight to my email program, I open Mailwasher first. As soon as you open this program it logs into your ISP and gives you a list of all the mail currently on the server that hasn't yet been removed by you. You should understand that this is simply a way of looking at what mail has come into your server for you and doing an initial sorting of those emails. This is not a new email program. Once you've opened the program, it lists all the emails with all with information it can get (usually from the headers) such as the size, who its from the subject, and the date received. Clicking on any of these categories will let you sort by that category. Double clicking on any of the pieces of mail will let you view that mail in a safe mode so that you can determine if the mail is or is not really spam - or just some dumb joke you've gotten from that usually lovely bloke who just can't resist forwarding "just this one" which you've already gotten 12 times from everyone else and their brother. Once you've seen all the email on your server, you decide what to do with it - either toss it or let it get through to your real email box. (I still have the beta version I downloaded and that allowed you to bounce mail as well, but this is only available on the Pro version today because the bounce feature on the old beta version was problematic.) It really is that simple. But, like any good program its more than just that. For instance, there's the status of different emails - this Mailwasher's guess at what type of mail this is. It could be normal, possible spam, virus, friend or blacklisted. Friend and blacklisted are categories of the status that Mailwasher applies if you've told the program previously that you know these addresses and have determined that they should always be processed to your email program (friend) or always be bounced (blacklisted). You can make an individual address a friend or blacklist them, or you can decide that the whole domain should be considered as friends or blacklisted. For instance, I made all of my work related domain addresses as friends. But the best thing about this program is when you've decided what category each item belongs to, and you hit the "process mail" button. Then you can watch as Mailwasher deletes all the unwanted mail you've checked to be deleted. After that, it opens up your email program and you can now download all the real email you've gotten, and none of the junk will enter your in-box. Now isn't that totally wonderful? But this isn't just a simple, johnny-one-note program that has no options. For instance, once you've used the program the first time that day, you can minimize it so that it stays resident on your computer, while watching the emails coming into your server. Then you can delete or process emails as they come into your server. (Mind you, that means you'll need to tell your email program not to check your mail automatically.) You can determine how often it should look at your ISP to see if there's new mail there. You can make all sorts of cool filters such as blacklisting everything that comes from Russia, Taiwan or Japan (no, I'm not a bigot, its just that they send heavy HTML messages in a character sets that you either can't read or can't see at all). You can make a filter so that every email that has the string "DooYoo Info Service" in the subject doesn't even need to be put in the list for you to check, and can be sent to you directly. In addition, you can configure how often it should look at your ISP, if it should play a sound when it finds new mail and a whole lot of other stuff about filtering and learning that would take me far more than 5000 words to tell you about here. Not the least of which is the little gray icon that looks like the door to a front-loading washing machine in your quick-launch tool bar and the icon that shows up next to it when new mail arrives at your ISP which is an adorable little white envelope with tiny blue and white soap-bubble circles above it, and some cute music that I really can't describe. This program is so easy to use as well as fun I almost began to regret getting less spam! Like I said, it is completely free to download this fully operational program which never expires. Of course, there's also a pro version which you can buy for US$37.00 which allows you to use it with IMAP, Hotmail, MSN and AOL, has technical support, something called FirstAlert! global spam database, Learning filters, allows you to access external DNS spam blacklists, lets you use it with multiple accounts, and much more. Very importantly, I should mention about what email programs this works on. I personally use Agent by Forte, Inc. but this will work with practically all the different and popular programs such as Outlook Express. When you install the program it looks to see what is your default mail program. Once that's determined, when you've finished looking at your mail and you process it, it opens up that email program for you. Very convenient. On the web page you'll find an excellent FAQ, including all the information regarding the email programs you can use it with. However, you should know that the free version doen't work on a corporate accounts, on a web-based accounts or allow for multiple accounts. But it is a free program, which never expires and you can use it for years without buying the pro one, like I have. Bottom Line: Nick Bolton, if I had anything to say in the matter, I'd put your name up for a Nobel Prize for what you've done with this simple program. Why? Because my in-box is now spam free. And that's what we all want, isn't it? Kudos to you, Nick and your little cat Jean-Pierre, too! Thanks for reading. Davida Chazan © September 2002, updated April 2006 ~~~~~ Technical Stuff: This program was written and copyrighted by Nick Bolton, a guy from New Zealand and his software company Firetrust - www.firetrust.com. There's a feedback form on the FAQ page or you can write him at P.O. Box 25-297, Christchurch 8001, New Zealand. The current version of Mailwasher is 5.1, which includes a fix from 5.0. You can download the free program by following the link at http://www.mailwasher.net which takes you to download.com. Mailwasher pro is also available for downloading at http://www.firetrust.com and you get a 30 day trial period before you have to pay for it. ~~~~~ Read the complete review |
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MailWasher
by aefra If there is one thing which irritates me, it is having my mailbox trespassed upon. That is exactly what spam does. A potentially huge amount of unwanted mail, often of pornographic, sometimes fraudulent and generally just plain advertising content cluttering up my email box. Today I almost received one of these from Barrister ... Williams; a supposedly African lawyer acting for a client who needs to transfer capital from Nigeria to England and asks my help. The idea being that I deposit my own money in a British bank account first, in exchange for a large remuneration. He has to be joking, but there are those who have fallen for it already. I stress *almost* received this mail. In fact, before I bounced it back where it came from, I had a peek at the content without actually opening it. I then clicked in a small box beside the offending message, it was sent straight back and will be blacklisted if he tries again. Clever eh! The system which allows me to do this is easily downloaded, safe to use and comes free if you don't mind a banner showing. I liked it, didn't want the banner and so registered for a one off payment of $20 some months ago, and for this have free upgrades for life and support desk access. I am talking about Mailwasher, a system which filters your mail, checks for viruses, warns you if it appears to be junk and returns that which is unwanted to the sender. How do I operate it then? I have a smart silver icon with the appearance of a plughole. When opening my mail (I am on OE), I click on the icon which brings up the Mailwasher box. This shows me a neatly laid out list of incoming emails. These are checked every few minutes. I can see at a glance who is calling, the subject and the date written just as I would on my OE page. Beside each name is an entry stating whether it is blacklisted, normal or friend. I will explain later how this arises. Also beside the entry are a series of tiny check boxe s giving me the option to delete or bounce. Above is the instruction to "process mail". The amount of email accounts supported are unlimited, there is no spy-ware contained in the programme and my details are kept secure and unmonitored. At present I have two incoming mails. One is from a Mr Ngula (yup! another one) the other is an American friend. I shall click on "bounce" for Mr. Ngula. His name will disappear from the box immediately, the message will be returned as if my email address does not exist and he will be automatically transferred to a blacklist should he try again. For Sandy, I shall click process mail and OE will dial up as normal. That's it. Incidentally, Mailwasher is running behind the review I am writing now and will give me an audible signal of any further incoming mail, just as OE would. There is no inconvenience to this system at all. The list of who may be allowed into my mailbox or not is pre-determined by myself, although I could choose to have apparent spam or whole domains off the server automatically intercepted and returned. Here I should explain that I am still pretty much a computer dummy. I even sheepishly emailed our dear charliechuckle recently to ask him what a bookmark was. :-) Yet Mailwasher is so clearly set out and such simpliciy to use that I haven't had a moment's hesitation while setting up my requirements. The Mailwasher box has a small toolbar along the top. By clicking on "tools" and then "options" I am able to enter those from my address book to be named as "friends" and any to be "blacklisted". Any others will be shown on the incoming list as "normal". This last gives me the option whether to receive, delete or blacklist and I can also set the system to delete large unwanted attachments. Should I wish to preview a message without opening it, the option is there. Mailwasher can be ac cessed on http://www.mailwasher.net or just enter mailwasher in your search engine. This website is beautifully and clearly laid out. The front page acts as an introduction and an invitation to download is on the right. On the left is a list of links to an overview, tutorial, Q&A and just about all the information you will need. Downloading the programme is the usual format. This is a box giving instructions, with each sequence started with a "next" button. Once you have downloaded Mailwasher, a confirmation email from them will shortly be received. Contact is promptly acknowledged, and my query to them recently about the quality of their anti-virus, was replied to within a couple of days. In fact they suggested that I use AVG and I happily did so. I felt, very much, that I had received a personal reply to my email. Mailwasher runs on win95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP Pro. It supports POP3, Hotmail and MSN. If there is enough demand it is expected that Yahoo and AOL will be added to this list. There are more sophisticated and expensive mail screens out there. I like Mailwasher because it works for me and only costs a single token payment of a suggested minimum $20. By my reckoning that is between £12 and £13 which is as minimal as you can get. This is referred to as a donation. I could have given you several thousand words of information on this programme as there is so much that it offers. However the Mailwasher website is so well laid out, comprehensive and easy on the eye that it would be foolish of me to try and emulate it. This review was instigated by a message from one of my favourite writers who wanted an explanation of a request on my profile. This is to ask that anyone who emails me puts a dooyoo marker in the subject as I have Mailwasher. Now you know why. I wouldn't like to accidently bounce you. Read the complete review |
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