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Thank you so much. I have used MailWasher Free for about 12 months, so I am delighted to get the Pro version
I just tried to install it, and received the following error message…
Source file not found:
C:\ProgramData\Firetrust\MWInstall7.11\disk1.cab.
Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.I clicked on “retry” but got the same message again.
Please help.Tried this software years ago and my issue is it deleted all my mail from my email server and caused great havoc. Not sure if it still does this but I am unwilling to install and find out.
I only know that I have used the free version successfully for 12 months (the first month included a trial of the pro version) and I had no trouble. It only deletes the emails after I check that the selected ones ARE spam and I have selected “wash mail”, then the rest download to my mail program.
I am happy to use it again, once I get past the installation problem.I have used Mailwasher since the 1st version nearly 20 years ago. It’s the first program I install on a new computer after Thunderbird and Pale Moon. The yearly fee is more than worth it to me (although earlier versions were a one-time sale) since it’s used on both my personal rig and several office computers. We get unbelievable amounts of spam on my boss’s company account (he got caught up in the recent Linkedin hack)and MW makes it easy to clear out the garbage before actually downloading any mail. If you take a little time any pay attention, you can train it to do most anything. You can blacklist or whitelist domains or individuals, use wildcard & regex filters for incoming emails, set it to learn to recognize spam, and so on. The only thing I haven’t found how to do so far is create a custom filter by repeat subject (spams with identical subject lines from different senders). You can train it to filter for specific things in email addresses (viagra etc)and auto dump them into delete/blacklist. I highly recommend it to anyone that sees a lot of spam in their email. Once you’ve ID’d all the junk and ticked off the Delete and/or Blacklist boxes, click Wash Mail and it’s all gone so you can retrieve the real messages.
My only complaint is that I renewed 2 days ago, only to find it offered as a freebie here today….Thanks for the feedback.
Now, does anyone have any idea how to fix my install problem.
I’m going to download it again and see if a new d/load is better.
WinI just did a fresh download and it has installed perfectly. It has even picked up the ones that I had already marked as spam in the free version which had been uninstalled… I’m happy once more, it had been a real pain earlier this morning having to manually delete spam from my downloaded mail before I had set it up again.
[@m] Hi, try running the installer again – hopefully it works this time. Odd problem, is it Windows 7?
[@Win] Thanks for the kind words. To create a custom filter based on subject – go to Settings>>Spam Tools>>Filters>>Add Filter, Add Rule button, and you’ll see the first drop down lets you choose what part of the email to filter on, so you can choose subject there.
I have used the free version for years. The main difference is that it only handles one e-mail account, which is enough for me.
