Pros: I have been using MailWasher Pro for well over 10 years and it is invaluable to me. It is simple to use, reliable, and intelligently sorts the spam from the real.
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MailWasher Free blocks spam with any e-mail client, because ofthe unique way it works. Rather than blocking spam after youdownload it, it checks mail on your server before you run youremail client. You then examine what you've got waiting, tell theprogram to kill what you consider spam, and let the restthrough.
The program lets you create blacklists and filters, so that itwill automatically detect and kill spam, without you having to takemanual action. It also does some basic anti-virus detection aswell. The program will work with just about any type of mailserver, including POP3, IMAP, and several Web-based email sites.Consider it a first line of defense rather than a comprehensiveanti-spam program, because it can be difficult for you to recognizespam on your own. A $40 for-pay version of the program, MailWasherPro, includes extra features, such as a constantly updated listof known spam senders, and the ability to learn from you about whatyou consider spam.
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MailWasher Pro
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$30.00
Firetrust's MailWasher Pro suffers from the same problem as ChoiceMail, DigiPortal's popular whitelisting product: It doesn't integrate with your mail client. Instead, it resides in a completely separate window that is, in effect, a second in-box. More important, the product performed poorly on our tests: It caught less spam than any other utility in our review, and its false-positive rate was a regrettable 16 percent.
With apps like Norton AntiSpam and Qurb, which so tightly integrate with Outlook, your quarantined mail is sitting right there in your e-mail client. Taking a peek is easy. With MailWasher, you can't check your quarantined messages—or deal with them—without toggling to another window. The app's lone advantage is that it works with almost any POP3, IMAP, AOL, or Hotmail account. It does not, however, handle Exchange accounts.
We also wish that the software was a bit easier to install; you must manually input your e-mail server and user name during setup. That said, MailWasher does have strengths: You can create your own message filters. You can blacklist and whitelist entire domains. And if you feel like blowing off a little steam (though it won't actually help), you can bounce messages back to whence they came.
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