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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 really an option. This is because our email addresses are known also used by many of our contacts also may or else be printed on business cards also 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 also 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 two years now also 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 also 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 also then examined also dealt with accordingly. For those messages spreading viruses, this could well pose a threat.
Mailwasher is easy to setup also 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 also was having some success, however 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 also installed them also 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, three of every teneamils I receive are legitimate also are allowed through by Mailwasher. The rest are deleted at the source also 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. You can specify emails be deleted automatically without your knowledge or you could have the program mark them for deletion however 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 also a whitelist. You can import all of your address book from Outlook with a couple of clicks also 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 also click exercise.
Mailwasher or else 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 or else 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 also does not interfere with your email software. It sits in the system tray also does its work diligently. In my case, it checks my inbox every tenminutes also 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 or else 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 also deleted without your filters even being invoked. This is a remarkable system also comes free with MailWasher. A whopping 14% of emails that I get are identified in this manner also 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 also 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, a well respected also liked domain also 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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