MailWasher Pro’s Spam Tools functions enable you to use MailWasher Pro’s heuristics, spam databases and the Firetrust content filtration system, First Alert!
Heuristics are the brains of MailWasher Pro - the rules by which MailWasher Pro decides what is spam and what is legitimate email. MailWasher Pro examines each email it views for suspicious signs that it may be spam or a virus, and warns you, categorizing messages as:
· Possible Spam
· Probable Spam
· Possible Virus, or
· Virus.
You can specify different strengths of heuristic scanning to help identify suspicious emails - None, Careful and Strong.
Spam Databases are powerful tools for identifying spam. Use MailWasher Pro’s Origin of spam function to check senders’ addresses against a number of different huge and constantly-updated lists of known spam sources, allowing MailWasher Pro to filter out many potential spammer addresses. You can select which spam databases you want to use.
First Alert! is a database of spam maintained by Firetrust. You can submit spam messages for inclusion in the database, ensuring that no other FirstAlert! user receives the same spam email.
The My friends list, My blacklist and My filters options are also available from MailWasher Pro Spam Tools.