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Mailwasher: A Good Thing

nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
My ISP tech guys turned me on to Mailwasher. Wife's computer was getting about 2,000 spam mails a day. Outrageous. I was getting maybe a hundred.

We downloaded the program from www.mailwasher.com/or .net, I forget which. Try one and then the other. It's FREE, but you can pay the guy if you like it. I intend to pay him. Worth it to me.

You can preview the mail on the server. Possible spam and viruses are identified for you.

Best of all, when you bounce the mail back, it shows it returned as though it hit a bad email address.

This thing has cut our spam down tremendously.

SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    Thanks, good idea and I am going to download it. (it is www.mailwasher.net )

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    David, I've been using something called Spam Killer for about a year & been very happy with the results, but this sounds as though it might be even better. Will give it a try & thanks for the post.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    nunn --

    Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try to install it and if it turns out to run compatibly with Norton AV, Norton Firewall, and MSN Internet Access, I'll be delighted to make use of it, as I'm finding that MSN's anti-spam and missed-spam features are far from perfect.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Mailwasher allows you to flag messages as friendly and it will then always accept messages from that person.

    You can also flag one as blacklisted, and never hear from that person again. It is deleted from the ISP server.

    I like the preview feature. I can open and read the mail while it is still on the server. Good for suspicious messages.

    It took me about four hours to get wife's many emails flagged and bounced, but now she doesn't get spam.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • texshootertexshooter Member Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    David,
    I have also been usuing mailwasher about 2 weeks. It does work, and I too intend to send some money...and it is working fine with my Nortons anti virus, and zonealarm.

    Thanks

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