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Managing Incoming Email Messages On The Server

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It is common knowledge to all of us by now, that the number of email messages with unwanted promotional and/or pornographic content (Unsolicited Commercial Email, a.k.a. Spam or Spamming), let alone the emails that contain viruses, shows a remarkable growth.

But before we go on, we must make clear that until you receive them, your incoming email messages are stored on a mail server. A mail server is a computer that performs a special task and is usually owned by your Internet Service Provider, which is the company that gives you internet access. Every mail server has a name, i.e. pop.earthlink.net for EarthLink, pop3.inreach.com for InReach internet (California), pop.lava.net for LavaNet (Hawaii) etc. By using your Email Client Software (i.e. Microsoft Outlook Express, Eudora, IncrediMail, Pegasus etc.), you are actually transfering your incoming email messages from the mail server to your computer. This is, more or less, what happens behind the scenes. Connoisseurs will consider this description naive and indeed it is. But our purpose here is to show you how you will stay protected against unwanted and/or malicious email messages and not to teach you how email messaging works. So let's get on with our subject.

One way to protect your computer against malicious email messages, is to buy an antivirus software and make certain that you keep the virus signature files up to date. As the saying goes, it's better to be safe than sorry.

You can use a similar kind of software, for coping with email messages that contain promotions or pornography. But with spammers becoming more and more elaborate day after day, you risk the chance of losing a message, if the heuristic method of your filtering software fails.

Wicked marketeers and especially webmasters of pornographic content, have the ability to acquire vast numbers of email addresses just by using specific programs, i.e. email address generators, email address harversters, dictionary email address composers etc. The messages they send you without your consent, besides containing completely useless and offensive material, also contain a catch. Somewhere within the message, they apologize for disturbing you and give you the chance to opt out by clicking on this or by replying to that. If you fall into this trap and do what they suggest, you just confirm that your email address is valid. It is more than certain that they will continue to bother you and they will most probably sell your email address to others of their kind. This will result in you getting even more unwanted email messages.

Having this in mind, we spent a lot of time looking for a software that would enable you to manage your incoming email messages directly on the mail server, without having to download them first onto your computer. Our search ended when we located an extremely interesting and easy to use software, which we strongly recommend.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are happy to introduce to you Nick Bolton from New Zealand and his software, called MailWasher. Left-click here The link opens in a new window., in order to visit the official website of MailWasher.


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Source: MailWasher The link opens in a new window..

01-14-2003