Is the Mail Washer not working as expected?

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gingbat
Least Evil Firetrust Employee
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Re: Is the Mail Washer not working as expected?

Mon Sep 09, 2024 9:10 pm

Do you mean MW shows no emails at all? (in which case the mail check must be failing) or it does show mail, but fails to mark it as either good or spam? if so, are you marking all emails as thumbs up or down? (as that is what trains MW which is which...)

Note also, you can click Help>>Help Topics in MWPro to see details on how to use MWPro.

OR our FAQ's here:

http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/ma ... -questions

And you can see the startup tutorial via View>>Tutorial Video from within MWPro also.

There are also some good tips on using MWPro here:
http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/ma ... and-tricks

And here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/articl ... art-1.html


kiaolsp
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Re: Is the Mail Washer not working as expected?

Tue Sep 10, 2024 1:37 pm

gingbat wrote:
Mon Sep 09, 2024 9:10 pm
Do you mean MW shows no emails at all? (in which case the mail check must be failing) or it does show mail, but fails to mark it as either good or spam? if so, are you marking all emails as thumbs up or down? (as that is what trains MW which is which...)

Note also, you can click Help>>Help Topics in MWPro to see details on how to use MWPro.

OR our FAQ's here:

http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/ma ... -questions spacebar clicker

And you can see the startup tutorial via View>>Tutorial Video from within MWPro also.

There are also some good tips on using MWPro here:
http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/ma ... and-tricks

And here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/articl ... art-1.html


At the very end of the file, you should search for any unusual characters. Although Mail Washer has not detected any spam, I still receive about five emails each day.
erwinraynor
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Re: Is the Mail Washer not working as expected?

Thu Sep 19, 2024 1:39 am

gingbat wrote:
Mon Sep 09, 2024 9:10 pm
Do you mean MW shows no emails at all? (in which case the mail check must be failing) or it does show mail, but fails to mark it as either good or spam? if so, are you marking all emails as thumbs up or down? (as that is what trains MW which is which...)

Note also, you can click Help>>Help Topics in MWPro to see details on how to use MWPro.Geometry Dash World

OR our FAQ's here:

http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/ma ... -questions

And you can see the startup tutorial via View>>Tutorial Video from within MWPro also.

There are also some good tips on using MWPro here:
http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/ma ... and-tricks

And here:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/articl ... art-1.html


The information you shared is very useful. But why do I still get so much spam even though I do it your way?
gingbat
Least Evil Firetrust Employee
Posts: 1785
Joined: Mon Jul 28, 2008 4:04 pm

Re: Is the Mail Washer not working as expected?

Thu Sep 19, 2024 6:05 am

MW cannot stop the spam from coming in the first place, (only your ISP can do this) however it does allow you to delete any spam/virus emails before they reach your PC, which is what it is made for.....

Re blacklisting, most spammers only use the same address a few times, so this makes blacklisting no good for most spammers, but it is handy for those senders who keep persistently sending the same emails.

Another option is that you can setup MW to auto delete a lot of your spam.

To auto delete senders you have already added to your blacklist for example, click Settings>>Spam Tools>>Blacklist>>Options, tick, "Auto delete blacklisted emails".

You can also set your filters, (Settings>>Spam Tools>>Filters>>click a filter>>Edit) to auto delete by selecting this option under the Actions tab there...

And to set MW to auto delete any email that comes in over a specific spam rating, click Settings>>Spam Tools>>Spam Ratings, and tick, "Auto delete if rating reaches:"

Note however, I recommend you read this first before enabling the last option:

http://forum.firetrust.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=7214

Also, checkout some tips here on how to use MWPro to its best effect:

http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/ma ... and-tricks

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