Mailwasher 2.0.28 - The Best Spam Fighter on Planet Earth!

[mole]

Try it and see how easy it is to slice away the spam in less than 30secs everyday.

I've spent too much time reporting spam, and getting even more in return grrr.

Mailwasher is like an ignore button. Heh, the best things in life are free

 

[Fearless]

I use it too.

 

[mole]

Did you pay $20 for your license, greg?

 

[Fearless]

Originally posted by mole
Did you pay $20 for your license, greg?

Not yet. I'm still in my trial period.

I'm hoping he will add a feature to automatically delete email that has Chinese characters.

 

[mole]

Adding cn.rbl.cluecentral.net to your blacklist should do the trick.

:evil:

 

[Fearless]

Originally posted by mole
Adding cn.rbl.cluecentral.net to your blacklist should do the trick.

:evil:

Do you mean add it to DNS Blacklist Servers?

 

[mole]

duh, yeah?

 

[bidawinner]

I started using it 2 weeks ago when someone mentioned here here.. working great...

 

[mole]

Did you pay the $20 license, bid?

 

[Mr Webname]

Mailwasher is excellent but does not enforce a $20 licence fee. Licencing is optional and the site suggests "anything from $3", even without a licence you are free to use it without expiry and to even get some support!
It is the simplest spam disposal programme I have ever used and I thoroughly recommend it to all.

www.mailwasher.net

 

[mole]

Nice logo, web

 

[WildCard]

I was kind of hoping there would be a feature where any spam that was in your box, you could label as spam and it would report said spam to spamcop or whomever.

Just earlier I was thinking of getting a spamcop.net email address to have as my domain contacts. $30/year for the first, $15 for each additional. Might be worth it to get one, and have the most at risk boxes funnel to it.

-WC-

 

[Mr Webname]

Originally posted by WildCard
I was kind of hoping there would be a feature where any spam that was in your box, you could label as spam and it would report said spam to spamcop or whomever.

Just earlier I was thinking of getting a spamcop.net email address to have as my domain contacts. $30/year for the first, $15 for each additional. Might be worth it to get one, and have the most at risk boxes funnel to it.

-WC-

I used a prog with a Spamcop reporting feature in it some months ago but many of the emails I sent to report actually came back with messages like "mailbox full". In the end it just became irritating and I went back to Mailwasher - quick and easy.

 

[mole]

Originally posted by WildCard
Just earlier I was thinking of getting a spamcop.net email address to have as my domain contacts. $30/year for the first, $15 for each additional. Might be worth it to get one, and have the most at risk boxes funnel to it.

Spamcop email is another excellent way to get your email "washed" before it hits your inbox. You get the Spamcop server to retrieve your mail from your original POP account, and then you set your settings to retrieve your email from SpamCop's POP. Quite simple really if you are familiar with email account setups.

What it does which Mailwasher doesn't is to allow you to report literally hundreds of spam mails to ISPs and Host Providers within 3 clicks and that's it. Their instant mass reporting feature is up and it works like a charm.

My girlfriend had a massive spam infection (about 100+ spams a day in a very short period) after signing up for a few fun sites and playing a Jackpot game originating from a spam to her email.

I signed her into a Spamcop account, and today, she downloads ziltch spam into her email client (Outlook Express). For maximum spam filtering, ensure that relays.orisoft.com blacklist is enabled. You can enable over 10 blacklists in your Spamcop account. Open relays are the biggest source of spam today, and Orisoft just blacklists the ip addressses involved. This has proven, through my observation, to be the most effective means to identify spam, forget the spam filters that try to figure out heuristics and all that crap.

Just be sure to keep your whitelist current to eliminate false positives from people important to you.

 

[WildCard]

Is Whitelist the same as Friends list? I was adding people to my friend list in Mailwasher. Nice program. It was easy to setup and operate.

What I have been doing is using Outlook Express to filter out any mails that have certain words in the subject (like viagra), or certain phrases in the body (like to be removed). Those are moved to a 'probably spam folder'.

Anytime email got thru that filter that should have been caught, I would add a key word to the filter to catch that type of mail next time. It's self-tuning, worked good., not great, but good.

I would sort thru that folder, deleting the ones that were spam. I later found out that some emails have images in them that when downloaded, are logged and point to the fact that that email address is a valid one. So what I chose to do is download my email, let the filters pull out the probably spam, then have ZoneAlarm cut off all the internet access to that computer, then go thru the email.

Sort of paranoid, eh? It's been working for me. I go thru the filter during bored times where I don't have anything better to do.

One filter I could never make in OE is one that targets mails with random chars in the subject like "hey wildcard, how are you?! lksdfsdfkjsdlfkjslfj" Atleast with Mailwasher, you can see the mail subjectlines before donwloading and kill those mails.

I am at work, so I can't check it out right now - but does mailwasher have the option to add blacklist servers like the open relay one you mentioned above? If so, can you tell me how and what servers you have in there? Or, is that option only available to spamcop account holders?

I hope you don't mind me asking you questions on their product.


-WC-

 

[mole]

Originally posted by WildCard
Is Whitelist the same as Friends list?

I am at work, so I can't check it out right now - but does mailwasher have the option to add blacklist servers like the open relay one you mentioned above?

1. Yes

2. Yes. Tools > Options > Edit DNS blacklist servers > [add in your blacklist URLs in the box provided)

After you have done so, remember to tick the box for "Check origin of ....", otherwise it won't activate.

 

[ReignDomain]

Mailwasher is great.

 

[mole]

Mailwasher is going paid :razz:

Hello,

It's Nick Bolton from MailWasher.net here updating you on exciting changes to MailWasher anti-spam software.

Contents

Announcement: MailWasher Pro
New: Benign e-mail neutralizer
Coming soon: CFS global message database
New: Affiliate/Reseller program


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1. Announcement: MailWasher Pro

I've wanted to enhance MailWasher's position as a serious spam fighter in the market, so I've been working on a PRO version of MailWasher which is now complete and being sold from a newly branded web site.

http://www.firetrust.com

But I haven't forgotten about you! To, all my loyal users who chose to support me with donations, referrals and suggestions to get MailWasher to where it is now, I thank you! As initially promised you will still get lifetime free upgrades and support. You will also get a free copy of MailWasher Pro! This new version has a better and more easier to use interface and ALL new development will be concentrated on this version. I'm sure you will like it. You can read about MailWasher Pro here:

http://www.firetrust.com/products/mailwasherpro/

To get your free version, head to http://www.firetrust.com/mwupgrade/ for instructions. The old free version is still available from www.mailwasher.net but will not be developed further and is limited in various ways.



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2. New: Benign e-mail neutralizer

As another way to thank you, I'm offering you the chance to get my new e-mail security product, Benign for only $9.95. This is a massive 71% discount on the ordinary price of $34.95

Benign is a revolutionary new product to help protect your e-mail against viruses, e-mail worms, malicious scripts, HTML and other nasties that can attack you in your e-mail. In a nutshell, it strips out all the bad stuff from your e-mails by fully decoding the e-mail and then re-writing it so that the e-mail is completely harmless. But your e-mail still looks exactly the same as it was intended. Best of all it will work on future attacks of viruses, scripts and worms without needing updates! For more information about Benign head to: http://www.firetrust.com/products/benign/

To get your special version for $9.95, enter the following Promotional Code on the purchase page:

RX64DJ1

This code is only valid until the 14th of April, so be sure to get in quick!



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3. New: Global anti-spam database

Over the past year, we've been busy developing new products such as Benign, and a promising new way to fight spam using MailWasher. This new system takes advantage of the the global commmunity of MailWasher users - there have been over 2 million downloads to date! This new system allows you to report spam to a central database where it will be verified as spam by a real person and added to the database. Once it is in the database, no other user of this service will get that piece of spam. We think we are a generation ahead of any other spam fighting system out there with how we've developed this technology. We'll be releasing it soon, but if you want to know more head to:

http://www.firetrust.com/products/cfs/



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4. New: Affiliate/Reseller Program

You can now participate in becoming a reseller for MailWasher Pro and Benign. This means you can profit from sales of these products if someone you refer to us ends up buying a product. If someone buys MailWasher Pro or Benign after being referred by you we will pay you 40% of the sale price. If that buyer then becomes an affiliate, we'll pay you 10% of their sales as well. It's really easy to participate, all you need to do is sign up and then add a special link to your website or even at the bottom of your e-mail. There's a calculator on the site so you can see how many $$$ you could make. For convenience, payments are paid monthly via PayPal. For more information and to sign up as a Firetrust affiliate, head to:

http://www.firetrust.com/affiliates/

Thanks again for your support so far!

Kind Regards
Nick Bolton

 

[Fearless]

Originally posted by mole
Mailwasher is going paid :razz:

That's just not right. :laugh:

 

[mole]

I've just tried their Benign product. It's superb! Strips away all traces of web bugs before you preview your mail. Web bugs are used by a majority of spammers to auto-verify your existence the moment you preview pane your email. Just the thing I was looking for and probably the first in the market for this!