What about those spammers that change the sending address by 1 digit or letter everyday?

[jackdashack]

I'm surprised that when I tried to register, I was already a member. Which only means one thing. I must have tried this a number of years back.

So here I am once agtain. And before I ever have a free trial I want to know how this programs differentiates from the same sender but one day their address is

4SXCYc49xy12Oi ~ @ bunchabalony.com and the next day
45XCYq49xy12Oi ~ @ bunchabalony.com the very next day.

This problem plagues many. You can block them on Gmail. You can write a filter to DELETE them and send them a good by message by template. You get the same mail from them the next day but as you might see in my simple example it's only changed by 1 letter. So it's like you have to acknowledge all these new addresses everyday, to block and delete them.

How does this program take this burden off the payee. That would be me maybe. This persistence is maddening. And I can't see how a program handles that and especially before I pay for one.

Thanks for any information. jack ":-}

[rusticdog]

No problems Jack.

Quickest way to deal with that example would be to blacklist not the address but the domain, that way all emails from @bunchabalony.com would get tagged.
The Learning (marking as spam/good) cares more about the message content than the subject, assuming the spam emails were similiar then once MailWasher has sufficient training it will tag messages that roughly match.

Assuming too you don't want to see the messages at all, you can then later enable auto-delete. For the blacklist you do that under Settings >> Spam Tools >> Blacklist >> Options. If you enable auto-delete for this, I also strongly urge you to make good use of the Friends List keeping those senders up to date.


For the Learning to auto-delete, that's under Settings >> Spam Tools >> Spam Ratings. This is where MailWasher does get confusing.
Learning assigns a value -149 through to +149
The other tools listed assign the number set, e.g. -80 for Blacklist.

You can set auto-delete and adjust the slider to the total value. Setting it at say -150 would mean the Learning and one other tool would have to tag the email as spam for it to remove automatically. I would wait on using auto-delete for Learning until MailWasher was giving really good results on identifying which emails you get are spam and which are regular.

[jackdashack]

Many thanks for your response! I'll work with this. I have 30 days to get familiar with it. G'day and your help appreciated! jack ":-}

[rusticdog]

All good, any questions just ask

Cheers