You can specify emails be deleted automatically
without your knowledge or you could have the program mark them for
deletion but let you glance at them just in case. This is useful initially
until you get a good feel for it. There are many other options that
fall in between these. The good thing is that they are all on one
screen.There is a concept of a blacklist and a whitelist. You can
import all of your address book from Outlook with a couple of clicks
and from other email programs as well. These go into what is called
a whitelist. Mailwasher will allow all emails through that are on
the whitelist. It will mark or automatically delete all those that
are on the blacklist. Adding or removing someone from either list
is a very simple point and click exercise.
Mailwasher also allows the setting up of legitimate filters. These
are methods of specifying an email as legitimate. For example, if
you identify all emails coming from your company domain name as being
legitimate, then all messages from your coworkers will be allowed
through without you having to specify each person. This is achieved
using a wildcard setting such as "*@youworkdomain.com".
This can also be used to blacklist an entire domain such that all
messages are immediately marked for deletion or automatically deleted
depending on your settings.MailWasher is an independent program and
does not interfere with your email software. It sits in the system
tray and does its work diligently. In my case, it checks my inbox
every 10 minutes and does a cleanout. I have my email software setup
to only retrieve messages when I instruct it to so that MailWasher
has the most opportunity to do it's work.
Mailwasher also has more advanced controls, one of them being something
known as "Origin of Spam". There are servers on the internet
which list known spam addresses. When you receive a message from one
of these addresses, it is automatically marked as spam and deleted
without your filters even being invoked. This is a remarkable system
and comes free with MailWasher. A whopping 14% of emails that I get
are identified in this manner and automatically deleted.MailWasher
is an indispensable tool in my email arsenal. If spam is a problem
for you, it could do likewise for you. Download your free trial today
and use it for 30 days. If you like it, you only pay $37 which in
my book is a small price to pay for so much time saved everyday.About
the Author:Balraj Dhaliwal is an Internet Consultant for BSD Register,
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