How does MailWasher Pro work?
MailWasher Pro works directly with your email server, exactly like your email program does. But there is one important difference: you can tell MailWasher Pro to delete a message at the server, without downloading it.
MailWasher Pro retrieves information about all the email on the server. With that information (some of which is also processed by MailWasher Pro), you can decide what to do with each individual email - download, delete, or report.
If you check your accounts with MailWasher Pro first, you can delete the email you do not want. Then, when you use your email program, it downloads only the remaining email, those that you want to read.
MailWasher Pro can be thought of as a "first line of defense" which weeds out junk, large wasteful attachments and potentially harmful viruses.
How do I start using MailWasher Pro?
To begin using MailWasher Pro, here's all you need to do.
To check email, don't open your email client first. Instead, just start MailWasher Pro by double clicking on the desktop icon, or by going to the Windows Start menu > Programs > MailWasher Pro.
The MailWasher Pro program will then start and will tell you what messages you have waiting on the email server. In the check boxes, select whether to Delete or Bounce the messages ( if nothing is checked, the email will simply be downloaded to your email client as normal) and then select Process Mail. Processing mail will delete or bounce the emails you have selected. Your email client will open and you can download the remaining emails as you normally do.
What is spam?
"Spam" email is generally defined as an unsolicited mailing, usually to many people. A message written for, and mailed to, one individual that is known to the sender is not spam and a reply to an email is not spam, unless the "reply" repeats endlessly. Spam is also known as UCE or Unsolicited Commercial Email.
