Re: MailWasher

2010-01-10 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 06/01/2010, at 5:29 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Nicholas, Have you thought of using a proxy email service to filter your email? In this approach, a special server checks your email, runs a spam filter, and holds back suspected spam. You configure Mail to connect to this proxy server, rather

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-10 Thread Glenn Nicholas
Nick, Using Gmail (or Google Apps) means you get Google's spam and virus filtering automatically. The spam filtering from Google is the most accurate I've come across - it filters out all the bad, with only an occasional spam email (maybe 1 or 2 per month, sometimes none) coming through. When

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-06 Thread choy
On 06/01/2010, at 5:13 PM, choy wrote: I hate spam assassin - it once junked an important junk offer and I only found it a week later. Lucky I checked. Personally I abhor ISP level filtering as it never hits your box, so the only way to check it is to log in. Even at lowest settings I

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-06 Thread choy
On 06/01/2010, at 2:20 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote: I have not had Spam in my Inbox for a very long time, it all goes in my Junk Mailbox. Daily I get about 5 on my laptop (from three different addresses, all hosted on the server) On my main machine, I can't even keep count... and most of

MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Kim Maher
Hi To All Can anyone help with a Mac program that works like “Mail Washer” on a PC. Your Apple Bore Kim iMac 24” Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo iPhone 3GS 32GB iPhone 3G 16GB iTouch 16GB OS X Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Ronda Brown
Why would you need it? Apple Mail has inbuilt Spam / Junk filters. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 05/01/2010, at 6:00 PM, Kim Maher f...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi To All Can anyone help with a Mac program that works like “Mail Washer” on a PC. Your Apple Bore Kim iMac 24”

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 05/01/2010, at 9:00 PM, Kim Maher wrote: Hi To All Can anyone help with a Mac program that works like “Mail Washer” on a PC. What does Mail Washer actually do? If it is an anti-spamming tool, then SpamSieve comes highly recommended and is worth every cent it costs if you don't have

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 05/01/2010, at 9:40 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Why would you need it? Apple Mail has inbuilt Spam / Junk filters. Apple's Spam filters actually let a LOT of spam through and falsely flag legitimate mail as junk :( It relies too heavily on your own manually maintained Address Book... If

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread choy
Mailwasher is an anti-spam tool for pcs. Having both PCs and macs, I haven't found any spam tool that is perfect. I still have to scan my spam for occasional errant mails accidentally marked spam by the spam filter. I would have thought the built in spam filter in Apple Mail should

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Kim Maher
, customizable filters, external blacklists, bayesian spam filtering which quickly learns to distinguish your spam and good email and email virus filtering. Friends List. Add your friends email addresses to MailWasher and they will always be recognised. You can even hide your friends from

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Kim, Yes, I understand what you are trying to achieve. I did notice that in MailWasher , The Friends List is a list of all email addresses from which you always want to receive messages, regardless of content. Messages from your friends are not labeled as spam, even if the content resembles

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Kim Maher
16GB OS X Snow Leopard On 06/01/2010, at 8:28 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Kim, Yes, I understand what you are trying to achieve. I did notice that in MailWasher , The Friends List is a list of all email addresses from which you always want to receive messages, regardless of content

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Ronda Brown
On 06/01/2010, at 9:28 AM, Kim Maher wrote: Ronni Once again you have a great problem solving mind, your help is always on the ball (not Collingwood). I will contact Firetrust, and once again thank you. The Little Docker Ahhh Kim, My darling late husband was an avid Docker

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Nicholas, On 05/01/2010, at 7:10 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote: On 05/01/2010, at 9:40 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Why would you need it? Apple Mail has inbuilt Spam / Junk filters. Apple's Spam filters actually let a LOT of spam through and falsely flag legitimate mail as junk :( It relies

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 06/01/2010, at 4:53 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Nicholas, On 05/01/2010, at 7:10 PM, Nicholas Pyers wrote: On 05/01/2010, at 9:40 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Why would you need it? Apple Mail has inbuilt Spam / Junk filters. Apple's Spam filters actually let a LOT of spam through and falsely

Re: MailWasher

2010-01-05 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Nicholas, Have you thought of using a proxy email service to filter your email? In this approach, a special server checks your email, runs a spam filter, and holds back suspected spam. You configure Mail to connect to this proxy server, rather than to your ISP, to retrieve your freshly