Are you being inundated with junk mail, otherwise known as spam? Are you offended by the at times disgusting subject lines that the senders use? Would you like to put a stop to it?
It is possible, because I have reduced my spam content to practically ZERO since I started using MailWasher.
The program is absolutely free, and it will rid your main email account of spam emails in no time at all. If you want to use more than one email account you need to buy the upgrade. The link for the download is at the bottom of the page. Download it, install it, use the Import Wizard to bring your main email account from Outlook Express or wherever, and start putting a stop to those offensive emails!
It's not complicated to configure it to work the way you want it to. I always have it start minimised when I start Windows. It checks my mail at frequent intervals. Once you decide that a sender is a spammer, you never have to see an email from that person again. But be careful in choosing the option "Add domain to Blacklist".
If SexySue@AOL sends you an email and you choose that option, any of your friends who use AOL would never get their emails through to you. You simply choose "Add to Blacklist" for that particular email. For friends or other sources of email that you want to accept, choose the "Add to Friends List".
If, on the other hand the domain the spam email has come from is something@buyithere.com , then, YES, stop all mail from that domain coming in again.
The important thing to remember is that the emails you are seeing in MailWasher are NOT on your computer..... not until you press the Send/Receive in your email program (Outlook Express, etc.). YOU decide what comes down onto your computer BEFORE you press that button. Once you have checked all the mail and decided what you will download and what you will delete, press the Process Mail button and watch the spam disappear.
Once it is on your Blacklist, it will always appear with the Delete box checked. If you don't want to see these emails again though, go into the Blacklist options and tell the program to Automatically Delete them. You won't even see them appear if you do this.
One final thing, but it is only available in the Pro version. If you are uncertain about the content/sender of an email, you can see what is in the email while it is still out there in cyberspace. Just right click on the email and choose "Preview Message". That will help you to decide whether you delete it or accept it.
If I haven't explained it enough, prompt me with an email to explain further what you might want to know. The online "How to Use It" is simple enough to follow. Read their web page, you might be glad you did!
How do these spammers (people who send spam emails) get hold of your email address, you might ask? Often, it is if you subscribe to an online mailing list, have a web page with an email address in it, use news groups showing your full email address, or that you are not security-minded enough as to who you give your email address to online.
If you visit a site that will not give you information unless you supply an email address, chances are they only want your email address for publicity purposes. Often, I give a false email address. JoeBloggs@otmail.com, and that usually gets me the information I want without divulging my real email address.
If you have a web page and on that web page is a link for people to contact you, then the 'spy robot' programs that spammers use to scan the internet for email addresses would soon pick it up. A good way to stop it is to insert some extra HTML code into your web page. I use this one, NoSpam and it works for me!
If you use News Groups and you have set up an email account for it, change your email address to whoever@REMOVEwherever.com
When your email appears in the news group, the people who read your views and might want to contact you will know they need to remove the word "REMOVE" from your email address. It is a method commonly used in news groups to stop the spam spy robots finding your email address. There is no such email address until you remove that word.
Basically, your awareness as to whom you give your email address to is the most important in all of this. Guard it as you would your phone number.
