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Well the Product title says Ver: 4.1 but that's a couple of years back. Actually, the version should be left off and let the individual review within their review say which version they're on about!;)

Mine's 5.2 and it's great (I've been using MailWasher since, I think, about 4.1 or 4.2).

What can I say, it's great and I'm surprised its only 1 of 2 of its kind out there SpamEater is a similar product, but I don't find the interface or the configuration as user friendly and it's limited in how much you can see _and_ if you look at all, what it calls Eaten emails are archived onto your system after deletion from the server (yuch!!).

MailWasher wins hands down (if it had a little more flexibility and universality in it's configurable filtering, SpamEater would be _completely_ out of the running).

I use MailWasher Pro and my email client (Barca/Pocomail, also a great product as far as de-spamming goes!;) to narrow down my email to a mere trickle of what comes in.

1st, MailWasher is the frontline. It keeps the obvious spam and junk out and allows me to do ad hoc viewing at the server to decide on the 'iffy' emails. I'd say it gets about 98%. The remaining 2% filters on down to Barca/Pocomail which catches 99.9% of the rest and quarantines and blocks opening of anything suspicious that may have made it onto my system (that works out to be about 2 one thousandths of a percent of the total mail received that actually passes completely cleared!:-O ). I see virtually _no_ spam and haven't had any problems with false positives.

I think everyone with an email account owes it to themselves to give MailWasher Pro a try. It can only help and is _so_ much better than Outlook Express plugins that still clutter you system with nasty files that you have to maintain yourself!:-( Why even let the spam make it to your system? Nip it at the server where it belongs!;)

The only downside I see to MailWasher Pro, is that it could use a tighter coupling with your email client, but, if I understand correctly, Nick Bolton and company are looking into taking there Benign product and coupling it with MailWasher to give a more coherent interface.

And, as other reviewers have said, I've not had to deal with problems that needed to be addressed by Firetrust's support (_ever_). And, I haven't had to use the forum either! I find the product quite intuitive and easy to use and _extremely_ reliable.

I have had occasion to contact Firetrust with feedback and they've been most receptive and forthcoming with information.

But, pretty much, I'm all thumbs up!!!;)

Added: May 29th 2006

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