Please run the MailWasher Pro Statistics Collector

Submitted by chris on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 17:11

If you aren’t aware we are rewriting MailWasher from scratch, we are about 8 months into development and things are really shaping up well.

Here’s a video of the new program so far taken a couple of weeks ago

 

 

 

 

One of the challenges faced is we’ve often had to wonder, how many users have certain options set, or how many chose to display MailWasher a certain way over another. Frankly we have no real idea... we know how we use the software and we have a general feeling for how you use the software, but this is based on anecdotal evidence from our support emails and other feedback. We don’t have cold hard statistics to back up these ideas, and we think it’s time we tried to gather some to help us shape the new version of MailWasher Pro.

We’ve written a small utility program, that scans your MailWasher Pro settings and sends them back to us. It’s crucial we emphasise here, *no personal data is transmitted*. It’s simply a summary of your MailWasher settings and some machine specifications such as your Operating System, Display Resolution etc...

For some reassurance, here’s the results run from the machine used by none other than The Big Cheese

http://s3.amazonaws.com/Firetrust/stat-collector/1115369095.xml

 

 

So it would be greatly appreciated by all of us at Firetrust if you download and run the MailWasherStatCollector and help us understand how you use MailWasher, and that will ensure we make more informed decisions on our new version.

 

You can view more information and download the MailWasherStatCollector here http://www.firetrust.com/en/products/mailwasher-pro/stat-collector

 

 

 

You guys make the best spam

Submitted by TeMerc (not verified) on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 19:55.
You guys make the best spam filter. It's been the best investment I've spent on all security tools since I've been online. Love it!! The new version looks awesome, can't wait to get my hands on it. Keep up the good work. TeMerc

Thanks TeMerc :)

Submitted by chris on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 14:35.
Thanks TeMerc :)

Louis Vuitton Malletier,

Submitted by louis vuitton on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 21:57.

Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton Monogram Glace, or shortened to LV, is an international French fashion house specializing in trunks, leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes, Louis Vuitton Monogram Tisse Canvas, jewelry, accessories, sunglasses, and books. Known the world over for its iconic LV monogram and logo, Louis Vuitton is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. A long time symbol of prestige and wealth, the company commands some of the highest prices in the international fashion market for its products.

I would LOVE to be able to

Submitted by Oz (not verified) on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 21:55.
I would LOVE to be able to run the Spam Collector, but unfortunately it will not run on my mac, which is where I usually run Mailwasher "in anger". Love Mailwasher, consider it one of my best investments ever - even the mac version, which went off the market only a couple of months after I purchased it(!!). Looking forward to seeing the new windows version on my PC.

Sure dear, I will download

Submitted by Mark Slater (not verified) on Tue, 07/14/2009 - 05:36.
Sure dear, I will download it and run it on my Vista, let me check MailWasherStatCollector and review you, i m sure that will ensure you make more informed decisions on your new version, but does Mailwasher works on linux ? because i do have Linux too !!

Hi Mark MailWasher Pro 6

Submitted by chris on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 11:41.

Hi Mark

MailWasher Pro 6 should run under Wine, our new version we are working on though will not run under Wine, and we intend to build a specific Linux/Mac version after we've completed the Windows version.

Are you sure that no

Submitted by Amy Rich (not verified) on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 04:09.
Are you sure that no personal data will be transmitted and you wont be checking any emails????? Because having an email account is something like having huge privacy, but if in any case that is hampered it wont be suitable. Apart from this issue, it sounds interesting. The trailer is good, hoping the newly version of MailWasher pro would be much more than its trailer.

Hi Amy It will transmit the

Submitted by chris on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 11:39.

Hi Amy

It will transmit the names of your email servers.  Such as pop.gmail.com but it will not collect or transmit your usernames and passwords. 

Your 8 months hard work can

Submitted by Dimitri Konchin (not verified) on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 21:55.
Your 8 months hard work can be seen very well in this progress video. you guys are making a fabulous thing, when it'll be completed and produced in the market, people will take no time and no thought in buying it and i would be one of them. I'm so sick of having spams and all, so m eagerly waiting for MailWasher..how long will it take more to be completed fully?

Thanks, we're looking at 2-3

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 06:52.
Thanks, we're looking at 2-3 months away to get it completed and out to you.

I am a loyal user of

Submitted by Mark (not verified) on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 13:02.
I am a loyal user of Mailwasher since Version 1. In fact I continue to use it to this day and love it. However, after reviewing your video of the upcoming upgrade and the rest of your site. I do not see any mention of the use of your original concept of Mailwasher. BOUNCING the spam back to the sender. Is this feature still available in current and upcoming versions?

Hi, yes bouncing is still

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 06:53.
Hi, yes bouncing is still available in the current version and it will be an option in the new version as well. You will see from the video that there were quite a few things not in there yet.

Louis Vuitton Malletier,

Submitted by louis vuitton on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 21:56.

Louis Vuitton Malletier, commonly referred to as Louis Vuitton Monogram Glace, or shortened to LV, is an international French fashion house specializing in trunks, leather goods, ready-to-wear, shoes, Louis Vuitton Monogram Tisse Canvas, jewelry, accessories, sunglasses, and books. Known the world over for its iconic LV monogram and logo, Louis Vuitton is one of the most recognizable brands in the world. A long time symbol of prestige and wealth, the company commands some of the highest prices in the international fashion market for its products.

Is the new version going to

Submitted by Towser (not verified) on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 12:17.

Is the new version going to be free to it's long time loyal users

No, there will be a minimal

Submitted by chris on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 14:22.

No, there will be a minimal upgrade fee given this is a full rewritten version.

Hi, Guys; For some reason

Submitted by Walter Reinhart (not verified) on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 11:35.

Hi, Guys;
For some reason MailWasher Stats Collector will not run on my computer. Each time I try to run it I get a message that either your server is down or there is something wrong with my internet connection. I'm able to send and receive files and mail with no problem so I'm stumped as to why it's not working. I've even checked to see if it was allowed to access the net which it is. Any ideas?
Cheers.
Walter

Hi Walter I think they guys

Submitted by chris on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 14:21.

Hi Walter

I think they guys took it offline now, though we got planty of really useful stats for us to see and work with :)

Chris/admin. I've been using

Submitted by Derek (not verified) on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 04:33.

Chris/admin. I've been using MailWasher for something like 10 years now, both free then Pro. It is the most valued program on my PC and I would not use emails without MailWasher taking a look first. Always recommended by me. Will the new version be able to copy settings over from Pro6.5?
You've mention before that the release date would likely be about 2/3 months, so would you now say this will be around October 2009? You also say there will be a minmal upgrade fee, will this fee included a subscrpition to Firetrust Anti-spam update service?
Not a fan of your Bouncing feature though. Most bounced emails end up on highjacked PC's or cloned email accounts. You'd need to convice me of the effective use of this feature.

Cheers,
Derek

Hi Derek. Whenever possible

Submitted by chris on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 17:25.

Hi Derek. Whenever possible we'll be using the old MailWasher Pro settings in the new version, and we'll hopefully be releasing in October, though maybe early November depending on how things progress. The upgrade fee I don't believe will include any FirstAlert subscription, though any existing FirstAlert account will still function.

"Derek" wrote on the 28th

Submitted by Anthony Green (not verified) on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 23:51.

"Derek" wrote on the 28th September :

""Not a fan of your Bouncing feature though. Most bounced emails end up on highjacked PC's or cloned email accounts. You'd need to convice me of the effective use of this feature.""

Hmmm! I have always found [with two different ISP's here in Hong Kong] that the FIRST attempt to "bounce is APPARENTLY successful, yet if one tries to bounce the same message again - it says that it is [effectively] a "dud" e'mail address I'm attempting to bounce to - and I KNOW the "Bounce" address is "GOOD" - it is for the ISP abuse@Netvigator.com or even a "test" to my own e'mail address - that too says it is impossible to send.

I give a decided "THUMBS DOWN" to the fake "BOUNCE" facility - especially as I want to drive home to my ISP that I disdeign the crap "boilerplate" replies they send me whenever I send SPAM to "abuse@Netvigator.com" !!!

I have NEVER had any success bouncing back via either of the HK ISPs I have used.

Hmmm ! One thing that has

Submitted by Anthony Green (not verified) on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 14:32.

Hmmm ! One thing that has struck me - the low limit of a mere 800 lines preview.

When I get crap responses to my complaints of SPAM & Scams from my useless ISP [Netvigator.com] - they send back 3.8MB of my message - which is mostly ASCII conversions of my many graphics files I lambast them with.

800 lines does NOT take in the masses MORE lines of strange ASCII that they send back to me - and which *I* want to dump back at them again in revenge.

Give me the opportunity to acquire all my original "yelling at them" - so I can do another "dump" on them for their crass stupidity at sending e'mails that are not personally addressed to me, and 99.999% of the time are to faked addresses anyway - but when told - Netvigator do damn all about stopping such messages.

Thus, it would be *GREAT* to dump 3.8MB of ASCII PLUS another dose of my "slagging off" jpg's on to their various addresses that are supposed to take action - but do NOT!

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