If you accidentally delete a mail, the restore option will allow you to retrieve it.Ĭons: In the Pro category, I said that the program is 98% perfect. Mailwasher leaves you to decide what is spam and what isn't. That can result in you not seeing them because they get sent to your spam folder or automatically deleted. To be succinct, ISP spam filters often classify mails as spam when they are both legitimate and important. Pros: It is 98% perfect and allows total flexibility in control of your mailbox. It provides a level of security that I have never found in any other anti-spam solution.

You cannot view attachments while mails are on the server either. I highly recommend you do NOT buy software that works this way.Comments: I have been using Mailwasher since 1998 and could not do without it.īecause all the mail you receive remains on your ISP's server until you have cleaned it of undesirables, it is impossible to infect your machine with a virus (unless you open read it in HTML view and click on a link within the mail). I guess they didn't like the fact that you could write your own filters and not use their 'online databases' and still have the program work quite effectively, so to keep leaching money out of you they just expired the program so you can't use it. It's not even as nice as the antivirus software, most of those expire but you can keep using them but not updating the definitions, this program won't even load once expired. It is a trial software that is subscribed to with a yearly fee attached. It is NOT shareware or anything of the type as listed on this page. You can stop supporting a program, you can make it so you can't get updates, but if you make it stop working even though it was installed and working, your program is garbage. When I complained about the extortion, they offered me another year but I didn't accept it. At the time I bought the 20xx versions they didn't mention this little nugget of info. I was a loyal user since v6, but I won't support programs that expire. I used my own filters and not their 'online databases' but still I cannot use the program I purchased. So it is not buy to own but a yearly subscription. Every year you have to pay them to continue using it. I loved it when I was using it, but to me it is SERIOUSLY flawed.

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