Use A Spam Filtering Tool To Manage Spam And
Save Hours Everyday Submitted By: Balraj Dhaliwal For most of us,
changing our primary email address to get rid of spam is not really
an option. This is because our email addresses are known and used
by many of our contacts and may also be printed on business cards
and other material. We certainly don't move to a different residence
because of some junk mail in our letter boxes. Luckily, there are
some very effective ways to combat spam and one such was is using
a Spam filtering tool.The particular tool that I am referring to is
called MailWasher. It is a tool that I cannot do without. I've been
using it for about 2 years now
my running totals shows that 72% of emails received are automatically
deleted by Mailwasher. For more product information on Mailwasher,
please visit: www.BSDRegister.com/products/mailwasher Mailwasher is
a piece of software that works at the source i.e. it connects directly
to your inbox on the server and takes care of emails there. This is
very different to using email filters in your email software for example
Outlook or Thunderbird. The major difference is that Mailwasher wipes
out emails on the email server
so that you never have to download them. Having a filter in Outlook
would mean that the email has to first be downloaded onto your computer
and then examined and dealt with accordingly. For those messages spreading
viruses, this could well pose a threat.Mailwasher is easy to setup
and takes a few minutes. There is a 30-day free trial of the software
so that you can have ample time to decide if it is working for you.
Initially, I started setting up my own spam filters and was having
some success, but then I stumbled upon a link on the company's website
that pointed to a link where an avid user was offering his filters
for free. I downloaded those and installed them and have never look
back.
The amount of spam that was identified started to steadily increase
until the 72% level that it is at today. This means that on average,
3 of every 10 eamils I receive are legitimate and are allowed through
by Mailwasher. The rest are deleted at the source and I don't have
to spend time downloading them. This is a big deal if you are using
dialup access to the Internet.There are many controls within the software.Click
here for the rest.