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MailWasher Pro Review – Recommended Anti-Spam Program

April 13, 2007 on 12:38 am | In Productivity, Recommended | 7 Comments

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Have you noticed that email spam is getting beyond a joke? Many countries have instituted anti-spam legislation but judging by the state of my inbox every morning it’s not doing much good, and I know I’m not alone.

Have you actually calculated how much time spam email costs you every week to download, sort and delete? 15 minutes a day is over an hour per week of lost productivity…

Recently I came accross and Anti-spam program called MailWasher Pro that is already saving me hours every week.

Why I like MailWasher

Many anti-spam solutions that I’ve seen suffer from one or more of these problems:

They’re too agressive – they eat up legitimate emails
They’re not agressive enough – they allow tonnes of dodgy emails through
They can be circumvented and rendered useless by inventive spammers

MailWasher overcomes each of these problems. Here’s a quick summary of how it works:

Sorting Emails and Nuking Spam is Fast!

Because you only see a preview of incoming emails without downloading the whole message, MailWasher is lightning fast – no more waiting for dozens or hundreds of rubbish emails to clog up your inbox before you get a chance to delete them.

Reduced security risk

Because you don’t actually download emails to your computer until they have been sorted by MailWasher, malicious emails with viruses attached never even reach your computer.

MailWasher is a fast learner

When I first purchased Mailwasher Pro after previewing the Free Version, I found that for the first week or so I had to keep an eye on the automated sorting function to ensure that mails were sorted correctly.

But ever since flagging most of my “friendly” email addresses and blacklisting others, the learning filter has taken over and the program functions brilliantly. Previewing and sorting 100 emails now takes less than 1 minute.

MailWasher Versions and Prices

Even if spam email is costing you only 15 minutes a day, that’s 50 hours you’re sacrificing every year based on a working year of 200 days. Then multiply that by how much your time is worth to you (your hourly rate)…

Convinced yet?

So, how much does this little baby cost? Well, there are two versions, the Free Version and the Pro Version. Here’s how the versions compare.

Why I use and recommend the Pro Version

MailWasher Pro allows multiple email accounts
It has a built-in “learning filter” which increases speed and accuracy.
It integrates with the First Alert global spam database which allows automatic screening and flagging of 95% of spam email
It is an absolute no-brainer at only USD $37.

So if you want to free your inbox of clutter and claim back countless hours every year, grab MailWasher!

Will Swayne
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I’ve heard good things about Mailwasher, but I’ve been pretty happy with Google Apps for Domains spam filter. It seems to work okay.

Comment by Blaine Moore — April 13, 2007 #
Hi Blaine! I have not checked out Google Apps for Domains yet but I know that the spam filter within GMail is excellent, so if it’s based on similar technology I have no doubt that it would be an excellent solution.

Anyone else have any recommended tools?

Cheers, Will

Comment by Will — April 13, 2007 #
I do not recommend MailWasher. Its detection rate is 100% when ORDB and SpamHaus blacklisting networks are used, but drops dramatically to 5,9% (with 5,2% false positives) when those networks are disabled or otherwise unavailable. So why don’t use a free email client (like Thunderbird, 97% detection rate without any connection to external networks)? 37 US$ are a bunch of bucks for a program which is almost useless without the assistance of ORDB and SpamHaus. (Personal test on 3000+ spam messages, details available on my personal web site, unfortunately in Italian only).

Take care

Comment by Casper — April 13, 2007 #
Hey Casper – thanks for stopping by. Unfortunately my Italian is a bit rusty so I wasn’t able to verify what you say

Your talk of SpamHaus etc. is a bit over my non-technical head, but all I know is that I used to spend 15 to 20 minutes every morning downloading and sorting through dozens if not hundreds of spam emails, and now sorting only takes 1 minute.

Although I use Thunderbird, I wasn’t aware that it had a built in spam filter (and does it preview mails *on the server*). Do you have a link you could point me to?

Cheers, Will

Comment by Will — April 13, 2007 #
Hi Will, here is a brief guide about the antispam feature in Thunderbird.

Comment by Casper — April 14, 2007 #
Thanks, Casper. I the article with interest.

The main limitation of the Thunderbird junk filter that I can see is that the filtering takes place *after already downloading the emails*. For me, this was the most time-consuming part of getting rid of spam. It was taking 10 minutes to download a whole lot of crap, 95% percent of which I then deleted.

With MailWasher, the preview function is very quick, which is one of the reasons I like it.

Now I just have to learn not to check MailWasher too much… over-checking email is a real time-waster.

Comment by Will — April 15, 2007 #
Yep, the preview function at the server before it hits your PC is worth it’s weight in gold. At that stage it’s pretty obvious almost at first glance whether it’s likely spam or not. If you’ve steadily blacklisted the nasties on a regular basis there’s not that many newbies coming thru that are particularly time consuming to deal with and you simply have not had to download them. BTW the price for the PRO is now $US19.98 – bargain.

Comment by PIRATE PETE — May 25, 2009 #