MailWasher Pro is an anti-spam program developed by Firetrust company. Support for POP3, IMAP, AOL and Hotmail/MSN email services is available. Recently version 4.0 was released with the following changelog:
New Features:
- ‘Learning’ system added. MailWasher Pro users now have the option to use Firetrust’s Bayesian filtration system to smartly identify spam based on comparison with prior-marked spam emails.
- New ‘Learning’ Spam Tool added (CTRL + T, then select ‘Learning’).
- Filters / Blacklist backup system added. Backups are stored in the MailWasher Pro application data directory.
- MailWasher Pro’s preview window will now display some foreign character sets correctly. This is a work in progress and more character set support will be added in the near future.
- Blue checkmarks have been added to blacklist and friends list columns to match the Learning column indicating emails already in those lists
- Firetrust officially launches the FirstAlert! system to the public. FirstAlert! account numbers & passwords are now included as part of the registration key for version 4.0 users and above.
- New help system added.
Important Changes And Fixes:
- Windows XP standby crash has been fixed.
- Incorrect summary numbers that were being displayed after message logs are cleared have been fixed
- Removed duplicate sound event entries & changed the default sound to notify.wav
- IMAP Sessions now escape ” in passwords and enclose passwords in ” marks.
- POP3 should ignore POP servers that abort TOP listing during the headers if some of the headers were actually listed.
- filters.txt now has comments at the top.
- Double bubble icon problem & notification sound events should now be resolved.
- Issue where mousing over the preview window would steal focus from other applications should be resolved.
- Fixed string formatting issue on Blacklist Autodelete warning.
- Changed Statistics file format and added functionality to import and use old format logs.
- European format numbers that weren’t sorting right in the size column should now display correctly.
- Read only files in the application directory no longer prevent crash log directories from being pruned.
- Autodeletes that occasionally failed when a delete was queued to a session that was quitting should be fixed.
- Fixed interface issue with the Restore Email function where MailWasher Pro would display the wrong message for emails that were completely restored.
- The Pie Graphs in the statistics form will now use the user defined filter colors when displaying filters.
- Improved Hotmail Error handling.
- Fixed caption error when user attempts to add duplicate filters.
- If flagged to load on startup MailWasher Pro will now place a shortcut in the in the user’s startup menu rather than in the registry.
- SelectMailClient changed to take into account user settings as well as machine settings.
- Quick Reply now works around bug in Pegasus Mail. Pegasus Mail users will be limited to a small number of quoted characters.
- H237 bugs caused by autodelete in combination with Show Hidden emails fixed.
- Fixed a bug where new mail notification would only occur for emails without visibility.
- Fixed an issue where emails that were deleted by a third party application would get stuck in MailWasher Pro (IMAP sessions only).
- MailWasher Pro now renames duplicate filter names when loading filters from disk.
- Whitelist can now import Eudora email addresses that have the form: “Dummy Address”
- Fixed the bug that caused the ‘Quick Reply’ feature to crash MailWasher Pro when used with no mail selected.
- Fixed a bug where new stats wouldn’t show up after the stats had been cleared until MailWasher Pro was restarted.
- Statistics graphs now use uniform length numbers in legend. ie 9.38% is now 09.38%.
- Exception errors in Friends List import form should have been fixed.
- The accounts form is no longer shown the first time the user runs MailWasher Pro, as this can be selected from the setup wizard.
- Logging now goes straight to disk and holds nothing constantly in memory in order to stop unnecessary memory bloat when debugging is on.
- Fixed lockup when sorting on SpamCop / Reporting columns.
- Extended logging is now switched off if previously enabled. Users experiencing problems with version 4.0 should enable extended logging once more.
- Disabled the combining of SpamCop and FirstAlert! report column.
- Tweaked logging to stop MailWasher Pro attempting to copy temp files into the final debug log when extended logging enabled
- Fixed doubling up issue in logs.
- Made statistics progress bar behave far more sensitively.
miscellaneous:
- Changed the Regular Expression link on the about form
- Added version number to the title bar of the main MailWasher Pro screen.
- The Status column is now the default sort column.
- Users can now move the position of the Delete column.
- MailWasher Pro now accepts and processes 20 digit registration keys.
| Version number | 4.0 |
| Operating systems | Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP |
| Website | fire trust |
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| License type | Shareware |