Guest guest Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 I insisted my provider get me off any filtering and got myself MailWasher that prescreens the mail. Tells me if it has an attachment or not, can select friends and I can set the filters to the level I want or not. I can blacklist any email if I want and can even bounce mail (I do not do that one on commercial crap, but fun when people try to send " snowballs " as I can see what email it is and bounce that back )))) IF the files are very large from " friends that send huge files of video clips " I have dial up and if I am in a hurry I delete these emails so I do not have to download them at all as the preview of the mail does not down load any html or attachments and can preview though the first either 20 lines or 200 lines of the email to see if it is junk or not. I also to a service where I can report spam (makes one feel good to be able to do so) If enough people report them they get classes as known spammers and show up that way in my MailWasher and I can deleted on my mail server without having to download this stuff. It makes getting mail MUCH quicker than before. It will sometimes even spot viruses, tough I tend NOT to download mail with attachments from people I do not know or has some suspicious headers (one can see the actual headers to see if it actually comes from who it says it is from) I can do a quick reply with out actually downloading the mail at all actually but only do this if the message is urgent and I do not want to wait till all the rest of the mail is downloaded. Before I got MailWasher it used to take me a long time to download the mail. IT is Much faster now. NO I do not work for MailWasher, besides there are similar other programs (tried a couple of others and settled on this one filling my needs) So no more bounce mail (I am on dog lists and when the words bitch and stud came up my mail would bounce before I insisted on my server NO filtering my mail) Louise On 2/1/2006 12:03:22 PM, shiree1000 wrote: > Same problem here with Aol's spam folder and yet there's a ton of junk > mail > in my regular mail. I also have had a problem soft bouncing for 3 > months, when > my email box is no where near being full, so constant resetting. > > > Of course, I > don't know what is happening to your mail, but a lot of > > my mail (from any source ) with any political stuff has been going to my > > " bulk " folder. > > > > It seems that has been doing me the favor of sorting it for me. > > So it's > probably just one of those > " Oh gee we didn't know the program > > was making a mistake because it is all done by computer selection with > > no human activity " > situations again. > > > > I have to gingerly pick through the daily tidal wave of viruses, trojans, > > > viagra ads, nigerian money scams, offers of porn, etc. to get some of my > mail > > with political content. F. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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