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SpamWasher - Spam Filter
SpamWasher - Spam Filter
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SpamWasher 2.0 - Spam Filter

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The Bottom Line

SpamWasher is a friendly, easy to set up and use spam filter. If you don't use the whitelist extensively, the filters are overreaching, though, and likely to produce false positives.
Pros
  • SpamWasher is aggressive against spam
  • Imports accounts, senders from many email clients
  • Friendly, easy to use interface
Cons
  • SpamWasher is overeager, false positives
  • Supports POP accounts only

Description

  • SpamWasher filters multiple POP accounts for spam.
  • Working in between email client and mail server, SpamWasher keeps junk out of your Inbox.
  • SpamWasher uses a set of automatically and periodically updated rules to filter spam.
  • Additionally, you can whitelist or blacklist senders and domains in SpamWasher.
  • SpamWasher can import address books from Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla, IncrediMail and Eudora.
  • SpamWasher supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP.

Guide Review - SpamWasher 2.0 - Spam Filter

"I'm washing my hands of it. Use the whitelist if you want to get somebody's messages." That's how SpamWasher might react if you discover a false positive. Unfortunately, this is common with senders that haven't been approved yet because SpamWasher's filters are effective against spam, but also overreaching a bit.

Of course, that is not completely unreasonable (though a challenge/response tactic might be even more reasonable) and whitelisting senders is easy from filtered mail in SpamWasher or by importing your email client's address book. SpamWasher also lists diligently which rules very violated by each message, so you can use it to spam-filter-test outgoing mail.

The automatic filter updates are nice, which the restriction to POP is not.
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