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I did use it for a few days now and can say that my impression did not become better. The program produces too many false positives and too many false negatives to be of much use.
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2008-02-16

FireTrust MailWasher 6.1

I was looking to speed up mail management as I am tired of reading all subjects in order to decide whether it is spam or not.

I decided to download and try MailWasher as it was recommended on the MS website.

The setup and installation was straight forward and easy. The program learned everything except passwords from my mail program.

First I learned that it was important to read how MailWasher works. If you don't, MailWasher and your Mail program might work concurrently.

Now it was impressive to see MailWasher in action and flag messages as "Known Spam", "Possible Spam", "Friend" etc.

But now what?

I still have to read every subject and make a decision. That's no advantage at all. I didn't find a way to make MailWasher delete at least "Known Spam" automatically to reduce the subjects I have to read. Worst of all MailWasher declares Friends and accepts any mail carrying that address or domain. If you own domains or operate a website, then you know that email addresses are easily forged and you cannot trust the sender. This means that MailWasher declares all such mails as "Good", so you are still stuck with the spam.

Nice program, but useless


I would buy and use it, if it would check all emails for spam and didn't fall for forged headers and if it would let me reduce the number of subjects I have to read.
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2008-02-14
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