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I've been getting a lot of email spam lately - actually, it's been slowly getting worse over the past 12 months and even though I'm pretty PC savvy and use my email client spam filters etc to set up rules or block certain emails the spammers had zeroed in relentlessly.
So I decided to look into getting a commercial email spam filter to help me because in the end I was spending too much time deleting spam from my email accounts and sometimes non-spam by mistake hidden in between all the rubbish.
If you Google email spam filters you'll see there's heaps of them but the most popular is Spamfighter so I gave that a go and it didn't install well on my windows 10 system or properly detect my email client so I decided to give Mailwasher a go instead.
I must admit at this stage I was a total sceptic but I wanted to find out for myself if an email anti-spam program would actually work, so I installed Mailwasher (the free version) and straight away it picked up my email client and my default email address - that was a positive start.
Mailwasher works as a standalone program on your PC just like a separate email client but in conjunction with your default email client. What it does is connect to your email server before your email client and checks your incoming mail it stops any mail that it knows is spam (cross checking via it's known spam database) before it gets downloaded and any other mail it is not sure of it will download but at the same time signal if it thinks it might be spam by giving it a thumbs down and any mail it knows is good it will basically leave it alone.
What the user does then is check these downloaded emails in the MailWasher interface and teach the program what is spam and what is good by confirming the thumbs down (leaving it) or deselecting the thumbs down and giving it a thumbs up (green) to tell MailWasher that particular email is friendly. Any email the user confirms as spam gets remembered and reported so the whole community benefits from "crowd spam detection."
Once the emails have been checked/confirmed as spam or not spam within the MailWasher UI then the "wash" icon (soap) is clicked and the mail is sorted, spam is deleted, and MailWasher automatically opens your default email client and then your mail is downloaded as normal (minus all the spam).
After a few days, MailWasher gets to know your incoming mail better and as I am finding blocks most of the spam until my incoming mail is now back to normal - it's great!
MailWasher is surprisingly good at not flagging legit emails as spam by mistake but occasionally it will detect the odd shopping email newsletter as spam but it's just a matter of giving it the thumbs up and MailWasher won't flag it again.
MailWasher free only lets you use it for one email address so if you want it for several email addresses (like me) then you have to buy the Pro version for $32 which is a bargain I reckon for what it does.
I'm just happy my drowning in spam drama is over
Here's the link to MailWasher website
So I decided to look into getting a commercial email spam filter to help me because in the end I was spending too much time deleting spam from my email accounts and sometimes non-spam by mistake hidden in between all the rubbish.
If you Google email spam filters you'll see there's heaps of them but the most popular is Spamfighter so I gave that a go and it didn't install well on my windows 10 system or properly detect my email client so I decided to give Mailwasher a go instead.
I must admit at this stage I was a total sceptic but I wanted to find out for myself if an email anti-spam program would actually work, so I installed Mailwasher (the free version) and straight away it picked up my email client and my default email address - that was a positive start.
Mailwasher works as a standalone program on your PC just like a separate email client but in conjunction with your default email client. What it does is connect to your email server before your email client and checks your incoming mail it stops any mail that it knows is spam (cross checking via it's known spam database) before it gets downloaded and any other mail it is not sure of it will download but at the same time signal if it thinks it might be spam by giving it a thumbs down and any mail it knows is good it will basically leave it alone.
What the user does then is check these downloaded emails in the MailWasher interface and teach the program what is spam and what is good by confirming the thumbs down (leaving it) or deselecting the thumbs down and giving it a thumbs up (green) to tell MailWasher that particular email is friendly. Any email the user confirms as spam gets remembered and reported so the whole community benefits from "crowd spam detection."
Once the emails have been checked/confirmed as spam or not spam within the MailWasher UI then the "wash" icon (soap) is clicked and the mail is sorted, spam is deleted, and MailWasher automatically opens your default email client and then your mail is downloaded as normal (minus all the spam).
After a few days, MailWasher gets to know your incoming mail better and as I am finding blocks most of the spam until my incoming mail is now back to normal - it's great!
MailWasher is surprisingly good at not flagging legit emails as spam by mistake but occasionally it will detect the odd shopping email newsletter as spam but it's just a matter of giving it the thumbs up and MailWasher won't flag it again.
MailWasher free only lets you use it for one email address so if you want it for several email addresses (like me) then you have to buy the Pro version for $32 which is a bargain I reckon for what it does.
I'm just happy my drowning in spam drama is over
Here's the link to MailWasher website
