General tab

 

The General tab is where you specify what default actions you want MailWasher Pro to take on start up, when you are not using MailWasher Pro and when you receive and process emails.

 

 

The table below explains the General options.

 

Option

Description

Launch email application after processing

Enables you to specify whether your email client is launched after clicking Process Mail. By default this is enabled. See Launching an email client after message processing.

Minimize MailWasher after processing

Automatically minimizes MailWasher Pro to the system tray after email is processed.

Play sound when new mail arrives

When selected, MailWasher Pro plays the default Windows new mail notification sound when new mail enters your system. This defaults to check on.

Blink icon when new mail arrives

When selected, the MailWasher Pro icon in your task tray indictates that new mail has arrived by displaying bubbles.

Perform default mail check every X minutes

You can instruct MailWasher Pro to check for new mail at regular intervals specified in minutes.

Do not check mail between these times

This allows you to define a time during which MailWasher Pro will not check for new mail. Simply check the box and enter in your required start and finish times using the 24 hour clock boxes and navigational arrows.

Minimise MailWasher when [X] clicked

When the [X] in the right-hand corner of the window is clicked, MailWasher Pro is minimised to the system tray.

Load MailWasher on startup

Instructs MailWasher Pro to load when your computer starts.

Minimize MailWasher  on startup

When this option is selected, MailWasher Pro is minimized to the system tray when the application launches.

Perform default mail check on startup

This option instructs MailWasher Pro to check your email when the application launches. By default this option is enabled.

Spam Throttle

Using this slide bar, you are able to determine how much of your message will be displayed in the preview pane.

By default MailWasher Pro is set to download the first 20 lines of each message for preview. This means that message processing is relatively quick. However, you may find that spam is still managing to seep through untagged. You can simply tag these messages yourself, or you can alter MailWasher Pro’s settings so that it is more likely to identify spam as spam.

By increasing the number of lines of each message that MailWasher Pro examines, you increase its accuracy because as it is scanning more of the message, it is more likely to identify words or characters that reveal the message to be spam. So, the higher you set the spam throttle, the larger the preview, and therefore the more accurate MailWasher Pro is, but the more slowly it will process your mail.

The spam throttle ranges from a minimum of 20 lines of the message (the fastest setting) to 800 lines (the most accurate setting). If a message contains fewer lines than your maximum setting on the speed throttle, then all of the message will be downloaded for scanning. When you increase the spam throttle you increase the number of lines being previewed for all messages. To elect to download all the content of an individual message click .