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MailWasher Free 5.1 - Free Spam Filter

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The Bottom Line

MailWasher Free is a flexible, elegant and quite effective spam filtering solution. Unfortunately, MailWasher Free only works with one POP account and lacks the statistics- blacklist- and server-based filtering so conveniently found in MailWasher Pro.
Pros
  • MailWasher Free offers flexible spam filters
  • The black and white list of senders is very easy to maintain in MailWasher Free
  • Easy to use, elegant, MailWasher Free is quite effective
Cons
  • MailWasher Free supports one POP account only
  • No scoring filters or statistical analysis means more user involvement in MailWasher Free

Description

  • MailWasher Free checks a POP account for new mail, and new spam.
  • MailWasher Free lets you preview and delete messages directly on the server.
  • You can set up sophisticated filters to automatically remove spam, chain letters and viruses.
  • MailWasher Free filters against personal black and white lists.
  • MailWasher Free lets you bounce unsolicited mail and spam in addition to deleting it.
  • Can launch your default email program after processing messages automatically.
  • MailWasher Free offers new mail notification in the Windows system tray.
  • MailWasher Free supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - MailWasher Free 5.1 - Free Spam Filter

A lot of spam, viruses and worms piled in my email client's trash every day. No more, thanks to MailWasher Free. Now all this junk is deleted right at the server.

MailWasher Free provides a number of powerful measures to automate that process. You can set up filters that use regular expressions in MailWasher Free, and the black and white lists are very easy to maintain.

While these methods prove quite effective with some tending to, MailWasher Free lacks scoring filters or Bayesian statistics to adapt to spammers' tactics automatically. Another drawback to MailWasher Free is that it only supports one POP account. If you use IMAP or a Web-based email account, you're out of luck.

If you have to check just one POP account, though, and want to avoid downloading all junk mail in full, relying on the sender and subject info to judge, MailWasher Free does a pretty good job elegantly.
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