Re: Mailwasher question

On 04/10/2005 pmj wrote:

> > My gawd, what a rigmarole :-)
>
> LOL!
> Nah...
>
> It's dead easy (& quick & simple)!
>
> Just a Couple of Clicks, when ever you want to Check your Mail.
>
> & MailWasher can be Set so that it will Delete the stuff that you
> don't want & then (Automatically) Open up your Mail Client anyway.


So let's make sure I understand this.

To check the mail on my 7 mail accounts I go into Mailwasher 7 (?)
times, look what's on the servers, decide what I want and what to
delete, marks it as such. (TheBat! has a thing in it that let's me do
that, as does web mail, but I can't be bothered to use it)

Then I fire up my email program and collect the mail that I haven't
deleted?


> Yep, but that would involve Learning how to use *yet another* Program?
> & Learning how to teach it about what you count as spam!
> :-)
>
> As well as Downloading & Installing it in the first place!


It takes a few minutes to find and install and forget. You then just
use your mail client which collects mail from the local host and
triggers K9 into action, it then collects your mail, checks it, and
passes it to your email client. You obviously need to fine tune it as
you go, and you can set up white lists.


> & will K9 (or any other similar thing) be able to Read (& make use
> of) her existing "WhiteList & BlackList" & stuff like that?
> Which she may well have built up to do a fairly good job of Blocking
> unwanted stuff, yet still allowing the stuff that she wants in?


Don't know, I only set it up because a couple of my mail accounts had
rotten spam filtering, so I was starting from scratch.


> I think it's just a question of the "Concepts" involved?
> & what people get used to?
>
> I know that many people seem to assume (erroneously) that the Mail is
> going "through" MailWasher, on it's way to the Mail Client, but that
> isn't actually what's happening, or how it works.


That's how I expect a spam trapper to work and it's how K9 works :-)

I accept it's horses for courses, and perhaps I've misunderstood how
mail washer works, but I'd rather live without spam checking than go
through all that :-)))


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