Dear All,

I'd like to strongly suggest you add the option to automatically add an ENTIRE DOMAIN to a blacklist if the email is NOT already whitelisted.

I regularly spend time manually DOMAIN blacklisting emails, and get a bit irritated when an email is listed as being blacklisted, but in fact, it's only the email address that is blacklisted, and NOT the domain.

I do not hide any email, but instead I view every incoming mail via Mailwasher, so that I can manually whitelist any new email addy's I need.

It's really a waste of time to blacklist a specific email, when it's the domain that needs to be blacklisted.

I checked the rules, and there is nothing i saw that could do what I need it to do using rules. Regex and filters to me, are a waste of time, when all i need is to view every email at the server, and have their domains autoblacklisted unless they are already in my whitelist.

If need be, hide this autodomain blacklist option by nesting it within submenu's, to keep it from newbies, and make the option to force viewing of every email (and not hiding them), a default, so as to keep newbies from making a mess for themselves.

I don't know how you could do this, but my blacklist file is very large (535Kb), and I regularly maintain it so that all domains are blacklisted, and dupes are removed. I get messages saying to remove entries in my blacklist because it's so large.

If Mailwasher could blacklist the domains automatically, it seems to me that perhaps the blacklist.txt file would not even have to be used anymore, resulting in performance increases.

What do you think?

Thanks for all your help. I really do appreciate the product.

Why bother blacklisting? Really you are saying that any email not on your whiltelist is to be deleted correct? A simple filter can delete any msg that isn't on your Friends List:

Or you could also add *@* to your blacklist as a wildcard, so everything except friends email is blacklisted.

Since the spammers are forging the domain part of the e-mail address what they are tricking you into doing is blocking mail from folks that never sent a spam.

Last time I counted, over 90% of my spam had obviously forged addresses and lots of the remaining 10% was suspect.