MailWasher Pro is een programma waarmee spam buiten de deur gehouden kan worden. Niet alleen kan het programma overweg met POP3- en IMAP4-accounts, ook voor webbased accounts van AOL, Hotmail en MSN draait het de hand niet om. Zojuist is versie 4.1 uitgekomen en hierin zijn de volgende veranderingen sinds versie 4.0 doorgevoerd:
New Features:Important Changes:
- The '<' and '>' hotkeys now toggle the Learning column options.
- Users can set their own global 'Restore from tray' hotkey.
- Added the 'Tell-A-Friend' system into the help menu.
- Moving the mouse over the status column now displays a list of the results from Spam Tools that think the email is spam.
- Many changes to the Learning system that should correspond to a noticeable increase in effectiveness.
- Spam Tools items can be selected by ALT-hotkeys once the Spam Tool window is open
- Alt-L Friends list
- Alt-A FirstAlert
- Alt-B Blacklist
- Alt-F Filters
- Alt-E Learning
- Alt-O Origin of Spam
- Alt-W Virus Warnings
- Alt-S Spam Cop
Miscellaneous:
- Legitimate evaluation now takes into account the virus settings.
- QuickReply system improved.
- Improved boot speed.
- Emails from AOL that have the XAOL-READ IMAP flag set will not be shown in the list unless the user overrides by using the 'Show Hidden Emails' option.
- MailWasher Pro now installs into c:\program files\firetrust\mailwasher pro on new installations.
- SpamCop reporting now has a 'From:' field set.
- Increased the number of blacklist entries before warning from 10000 to 20000.
- The Trash and Learning corpus files are now stored in rot13+rot5 (encrypted) format to reduce compatibility problems with some virus scanners.
- Added a feature reminder window to the unregistered version, displaying the remaining length of the trial period.
- The 'Preview' and 'View complete headers' menus are now disabled when multiple messages are selected in the grid
- The multiple address list now handles multiple addresses where some are substrings of others, eg one@firetrust.com vs. tone@firetrust.com.
- Deleted Mail Archive (Trash) is now on by default.
- Uninstalling MailWasher Pro will now take users to an optional evaluation questionnaire.
- New 'Limited Feature Edition' functionality enabled.
- Many caption changes and localisation tweaks.
- Fixed a bug that caused errors when using drag & drop while emails were loading.
- The 'R' key can no longer mark legitimate mail for reporting to FirstAlert!.
- Statistics are now recording the status for emails that were matched by RBL.
- Statistics are now recording whether auto-deleted emails had been auto-bounced.
- The New Mail notification now should only happens when an email arrives that is new, visible and legitimate.
- Closing the Options window should no longer cause minor column resizing.
- Fixed a bug where the Learning system would only evaluate the first 80 characters on each line.
- Fixed a bug causing QuickReply to crash under Windows 98.
- Cryptic error J877.2 fixed.
- Fixed a bug where QuickReply was reporting 'your filters file is empty' when it meant to say 'could not launch email client'.
- The Clear button should now grey out when the statistics are cleared.
- Fixed a bug where 'check all accounts' had ceased to work in some cases.
- Fixed a bug where the 'download more' button in the preview window would display 0 as the currently downloaded lines.
- Fixed a positioning problem on the Spam Tools small button.
- Fixed a bug where 'Assume I'm online' meant different things in the setup wizard and options form.
- The statistics window now remembers whether it was in a maximized state.
- Many unglamorous stability fixes.