Thunderbird Mail "Mail Washer"

I use a program called "Mail Washer" by Firetrust (New Zealand) that
examins all mail before it is downloaded. Some is preselected by the
program as known Spam, and it learns from what is deleted when it is
checked by the addressee before downloading. I have used it for a
coupule of years, and find it's the best ever. I believe there is a
free version and one for sale. I've used both, and the PRO version is
miles ahead of the freebie.

Here is the URL for anyone interested:

http://www.firetrust.com/



Will

 

A similar feature to this is native to Firebird. That is, it is already
there. You have to "train it", at first, but then it is very good at
putting spam etc., in the junk folder for you before it shows up in your
in-box.

 

The downside, as far as I'm concerned, of the TB junk mail feature is
that it only decides what is junk after downloading the email. If there
is a virus in one of these mails AVG still reports it even though it's
going straight into the junk folder. I'm not complaining that AVG
reports the virus - better that than not - but when using Mail Washer
the emails are never even downloaded from the ISP's server. This saves
time and eliminates the possibility of infection.

I thoroughly recommend Mail Washer.

 

I also used Mailwasher, and it works fine indeed. But so does the
inbuilt spamfilter of Thunderbird, as I found out trying it in 1.0.4 on
my new system. The latter saves a few actions, while the former is
easier to scan visually for "leftovers", because it nicely marks goed
mail in green and bad mail in red, while leaving the leftovers white.
Hence I will return to Mailwasher, because the visual check of mail not
marked green, combined with the marking of filternames, is much quicker
than having to check all mail.


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Jan van Aalderen, Amstelveen
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