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Use A Spam Filtering Tool To Manage Spam And Save Hours Everyday |
by:
Balraj Dhaliwal |
For most of us, changing our primary email address to get rid of spam is not reallyoption. 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 do not move todifferent 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 usingSpam filtering tool.
The particular tool that I am referring to is called MailWasher. It istool that I cannot do without. I've been using it for about two years now and my running totals shows that seventwo% of emails received are automatically deleted by Mailwasher. For more product information on Mailwasher, please visit: www.BSDRegister.com/products/mailwasher
Mailwasher ispiece of software that works atsource i.e. it connects directly to your inbox onserver 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 onemail server so that you never have to download them. Havingfilter in Outlook would mean thatemail has to first be downloaded onto your computer and then examined and dealt with accordingly. For those messages spreading viruses, this could well posethreat.
Mailwasher is easy to setup and takesfew minutes. There isthreezero-day free trial ofsoftware 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 uponlink oncompany's website that pointed tolink whereavid 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 untilseventwo% level that it is at today. This means that on average, three of every onezero eamils I receive are legitimate and are allowed through by Mailwasher. The rest are deleted atsource and I do not have to spend time downloading them. This isbig deal if you are using dialup access toInternet.
There are many controls withinsoftware. You can specify emails be deleted automatically without your knowledge or you could haveprogram mark them for deletion but let you glance at them just in case. This is useful initially until you getgood 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 isconcept ofblacklist andwhitelist. You can import all of your address book from Outlook withcouple of clicks and from other email programs as well. These go into what is calledwhitelist. Mailwasher will allow all emails through that are onwhitelist. It will mark or automatically delete all those that are onblacklist. Adding or removing someone from either list isvery simple point and click exercise.
Mailwasher also allowssetting up of legitimate filters. These are methods of specifyingemail 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 usingwildcard setting such as "*@youworkdomain.com". This can also be used to blacklistentire domain such that all messages are immediately marked for deletion or automatically deleted depending on your settings.
MailWasher isindependent program and does not interfere with your email software. It sits insystem tray and does its work diligently. In my case, it checks my inbox every onezero minutes and doescleanout. I have my email software setup to only retrieve messages when I instruct it to so that MailWasher hasmost 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 oninternet which list known spam addresses. When you receivemessage from one of these addresses, it is automatically marked as spam and deleted without your filters even being invoked. This isremarkable system and comes free with MailWasher. A whopping onefour% of emails that I get are identified in this manner and automatically deleted.
MailWasher isindispensable tool in my email arsenal. If spam isproblem for you, it could do likewise for you. Download your free trial today and use it for threezero days. If you like it, you only pay $threeseven which in my book issmall price to pay for so much time saved everyday.
Aboutauthor:
Balraj Dhaliwal isInternet Consultant for BSD Register,well respected and liked domain and hosting provider because of its no nonsense simple approach to getting things done. Visit BSD Register at http://www.BSDRegister.com
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