The Blacklist tab gives you an easy way to banish spammers from your inbox, as it is an effective tool against email from mailing lists that you may have unwittingly signed up for (or been submitted to), from companies who take no notice of your unsubscribe requests.
There are several ways to enter an address to the Blacklist:
For more information about the Blacklist, see Managing the Blacklist in the MailWasher Pro help
Yes, if the existing Blacklist is a plain text file of email addresses.
Copy and paste your Blacklist entries to the Blacklist file (Blacklist.txt), located in the application data directory which can be located by selecting About in the Help menu and selecting the link.
MailWasher Pro must be closed before opening this file and remain closed until you have entered and saved your changes. The format of the file must be specific to one email address per line, with no extra characters like commas etc. The Blacklist is contained under the heading [Blacklisted emails]. The Friends List is also contained in this file under the heading [Whitelisted emails].
Operating systems Windows 95, 98 and Me have a limit of 32,000 characters for a list and stop MailWasher Pro working properly if the list is too big.
As soon as your mail is checked on the server and identified as being from a sender in your personal Blacklist, it is bounced directly from the server back to the sender and deleted so you never actually see it.
Messages marked by the DNS spam Database Servers are not automatically deleted or bounced.
They are the date the address last matched an email (for expiry purposes). If the number is missing then the current date is assumed.
A DNS spam Blacklist Server is a database of known Internet addresses (or IP's) used by persons or companies who are either sending spam, or who are known in some way to support spammers, for example having open mail relays or hosting websites and distributing marketing spamming software.
When checking your mail in MailWasher Pro, any new email is checked against these lists to determine if the email comes from a known source of spam. This is listed in the Status column in the preview pane. These emails are automatically marked for Bounce and Delete.
Spamhaus and SpamCop are built in to MailWasher Pro, but you can add more if you want. The listed ones in MailWasher Pro are:
bl.spamcop.net
sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
Note: sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org has been replaced with zen.spamhaus.org
Other blacklist servers are:
list.dsbl.org
blackholes.mail-abuse.org
bl.csma.biz
psbl.surriel.com
cbl.abuseat.org
Any changes you make to the Blacklist.txt file are not saved if MailWasher Pro is open. Make sure that even before you open the file in a text editor that MailWasher Pro is not running.
Outlook has its Junk Senders List as a plain text file and can be easily added to MailWasher Pro's Blacklist file. Outlook Express has it's Junk Sender's List in the registry which cannot be exported as a text file.
Right click on your MailWasher Pro shortcut > with the left mouse button select Properties > select the Compatibility tab at the top > ensure the option "Run as administrator" is checked > click OK.
Problem...
Origin of Spam External DNS Blacklist Server 'ORDB' is marking every mail as "Origin Blacklisted by ORDB"
Why...
ORDB which was discontinued some time ago is now replying again, however it's still not in service which means that every answer it gives is positive.
What this means...
Anyone using ORDB will have every email marked as "Origin Blacklisted....." by this service, unless the address is in the Friends List.
Solution...
If you have ORDB checked in MailWasherPro Spam Tools then uncheck.
In MailWasherPro click > Spam Tools > Origin of Spam and uncheck "ORDB (relays.ordb.org)" and click OK (or press 'Enter' key on your keyboard)
If you are on MailWasher Free then old MW Free doesn't allow DNS Blacklist Servers to be altered. Upgrading to 6.1 MW Free would solve this problem as it allows the DNS Blacklist Servers to be altered.