spam not deleting/bouncing

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andromeda_girl
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spam not deleting/bouncing

Sun Mar 21, 2021 5:37 am

i have one rogue spam/phishing email i have deleted and bounced perhaps fifty times in the past several weeks that simply refuses to go away.
i believe that in all possibility, it has been removed, but for some reason MWPro still shows it as being in my spam folder and isn't removing it.
as well, the issue with MWPro not remembering 'good' or 'friends' or 'blacklist' is becoming frustrating. it gets everything backwards and isn't learning like it used to.
is this a known issue?
ataraxy
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Re: spam not deleting/bouncing

Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:12 pm

1. Do you have MailWasher set to move deleted messages to the spam folder on that account? You can check by going to Settings - Accounts, select the account, select the Incoming tab and then click to expand the Advanced settings. The setting is at the bottom of the tab.

In that case, MailWasher deletes the mail into the Spam folder, and so you just go around and around and around. I found this when it happened to me.

Assuming that you don't want to change the setting, the only way to delete the spam message is to use web mail, or another email programme.

I've put in a suggestion that MailWasher be smart enough to know that if something is in the Spam folder, it should be deleted permanently in this situation.

2. I can't help with the friends list/bad list issue as I don't use them, but if you're having problems with MailWasher not learning, something may have got corrupted. If you don't get an answer from someone else, try sending some logs to Firetrust by going to Help - Send Support Logs in MailWasher.
Windows 10
andromeda_girl
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Re: spam not deleting/bouncing

Sun May 30, 2021 12:52 am

sorry but this doesn't help.
i had the default settings, so anything deleted should just be gone and not worried about ever again, just like anything else mailwasher ever deleted over the past 13 or so years. none of my accounts was set to move deleted emails anywhere.

here's what i discovered:
the specific returning spam email in question was in fact deleted and bounced first time around, about 4 months ago, on my desktop machine.
it has not endlessly been resent to me every ten minutes for the past 4 months or more, it was removed ages ago.

but my laptop's mailwasher still sees it every time it checks mail.
it still has been deleted all this time, it IS gone.

-but on the laptop's mailwasher, it still sees it and it is always there, every time mailwasher checks for a new email.
ataraxy
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Re: spam not deleting/bouncing

Sun May 30, 2021 4:54 am

Have a look at viewtopic.php?f=50&t=38805

Likely solutions are in the later posts.
Windows 10

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