Mailwaher Pro 4.1 Startup box

[mike2002]

I've additionally posted this message on the Mailwasher Forum.

Can anyone tell me what the Startup box reads when Mailwasher Pro 4.1 (latest version) first loads. It's a new function.
It says something about Building a (database?), and flashes off the screen so fast, that it's impossible to read. I've tried to capture it with the Print Screen key without success.

At a guess it must be something to do with a Spam Database, so it's probably loading the list.

[mike2002]

Got it!!

[Sylvander]

KEY PHRASES
Training archive, learning filters.

Does Mailwasher Pro offer a training tutorial?
Perhaps it archives your answers to questions?
So it can filter out those parts of the tutorial you have already understood?
Does it automatically rebuild this archive when you start Mailwasher, even if you are not starting the tutorial?
Can this perhaps be configured to cease?
Or is this a malfunction?

[mike2002]

Here yer go Sylvander - an extract from the Help File:

How to customize Learning options
Learning is a new MailWasher Pro feature.

MailWasher Pro’s Learning function uses a special filtering technique for identifying incoming spam. To identify spam, a filter looks at the entire context of an email, not just the heading and subject line. It then compares the content of messages that are known to be spam with messages that are known to be legitimate, in order to build a database of words that is used to predict or identify the probability that a future email is spam or not. The filter learns to identify new spam the more it analyzes incoming messages and can train itself to identify new patterns of spam.

Select the Learning function if you want to train MailWasher Pro to recognize your mail messages and to specify if you want messages that look like junk messages to be blocked. By informing MailWasher Pro which of your messages are junk and which aren’t when you check your mail, MailWasher Pro is trained to tell the difference. A new Learning column displays in the message table, in which you specify which of your messages are legitimate and which are junk. To find out how to train MailWasher Pro, see How to classify your email.

While training, you can also set MailWasher Pro to automatically take specific actions when you specify that an email message is either junk, or legitimate. For example, MailWasher Pro can automatically mark the senders of any junk email to be blacklisted, or add the senders of legitimate email to your friends list.

Option. Training:
Train MailWasher Pro to recognize your junk mail and legitimate
Select this option if you want to begin training MailWasher Pro to recognize the difference between your junk and legitimate email. You can also select if you want to Limit the training archive size to a MB amount that you specify.
This option adds a Learning column to the message table, where you inform MailWasher Pro which messages are legitimate and which are junk.

Select the action that you want MailWasher Pro to perform if while training, you specify that an email is junk. Select from:

Mark the sender of the email to be blacklisted

Mark the email for deletion

Mark the email for bounce

Mark the email for reporting to FirstAlert!

Mark the email for reporting to SpamCop

If while training, you specify that an email is legitimate, you can select the option for MailWasher Pro to automatically Add the email to the friends list. ;)

[Sylvander]

YIKES! :)
So its Mailwasher that's being trained not the user.
It makes us seem rather redundant.

It would be great if it works.
But actually, it sounds a little dangerous.
Would I trust such vital decision making to some software?
If it gets it wrong some vital e-mails could go in the bin! :eek:

At the moment I have Mailwasher hide certain e-mails that I consider to be junk.
But that is based on decisions made by lil ole me.
And even then I [sometimes] wonder if the hidden mails could be ones I need to see.