Attention everyone who posted suggestions in Enhancements We Want in 5.3, please review and consolidate all those suggestions that didn't quite make it into 5.3 here.

Attention SH and RD - Item 6 below did not get put in as per here and here - this one is important.

1. For My Filters, I would like to see an option to "Mark the email for reporting". I find it confusing that there is no such option when there is an option to "Disable Reporting".

2. Auto mark trash can for learning when filters or spam tools tag an email as spam (see screen shot below Item 5)

3. Provide option to re-label the columns on the message page so, for example, I can rename the SpamCop to SC so resized columns fits the size of the check-box and you don't end up with a label that says "Sp..." - or the Learning label saying "Lear..." (see screen shot below Item 5)

4. Provide option to edit the "Status" label for the Origin of Spam tools so the status label will fit in resized columns eliminating need to hover (which works intermittently) to see what's happening. For example, spam tagged by Spamhaus or SpamCop both begin with "Origin blacklisted by Spam..." - I would like to rename to RBL-SH or RBL-SC (see screen shot below Item 5)

5. Fix background color bug for Learning filter. If you uncheck the Color the entire row box, the background of the Learning filter box remains the last selected color (see screen shot below)

6. The documentation misrepresents the restore capabilities, one, and two, it does not properly warn users of the restore limitations. Therefore, users may easily (and often do) think they should be able to fully restore an email.


a. Edit: Completed - The Program Help file HAS been changed to clearly and properly reflect the capabilities and limitations of the Delete and Restore functions.

b. Tools, Options, Summary tab, Recycle Bin description needs to be changed to reflect the Restore Email function's limitations.

c. Folks don't read help files. Therefore, the MW application itself needs to educate the user and should have a "default on" pop up that warns users with an "Are you sure?" type notice that again says, "If you restore a deleted email, the restored email will only display as many lines as you have chosen with the spam throttle."

d. And of course, a check box for "Do not show this warning again" for seasoned users.

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Bill, AFE7Ret
Freedom is NOT Free!

I agree to all requests made by Bill_Bright, and I will slightly modify some and add other:

A test button for the SMTP server so the folks having problems could see/post a quick log of a connection test.

A test button for DNSBL servers so you could make sure your choice was entered correctly and was working. Maybe an auto-trim of any leading/trailing spaces entered too.

The check-mail button to reset the mail checking counter so it waited your desired time before doing another check if you click it manually.

A statistics button up next to the Spam Tools button on the main tool area.

All of the bouncing options in the menus and dialogs disabled or better hidden if you don't have bouncing enabled.

The error warning triangle made larger and moved to the toolbar where it would be more obvious.

Visible labels, not just tool-tips for the normal/source view buttons. Making them be sticky between messages would also be nice.

A label on/near the DNSBL cancel button and progress bar saying Source of Spam.

An instantly appearing "I'm shutting down" popup box when you close MW so the shutdown delay doesn't make you think you didn't click the right spot.

I'd like the user having an option on when MW beeps for new mail: any mail or only good mail.

Add SURBL checking http://www.surbl.org/ SURBLs differ from most other RBLs in that they're used to detect spam based on message body URIs (usually web sites). Unlike most other RBLs, SURBLs are not used to block spam senders. Instead they allow you to block messages that have spam hosts which are mentioned in message bodies.

I'd like to see SPF checking added to MW, I just loaded the SPF check extension to Thunderbird and it is doing a great job of identifying bogus messages.

The outgoing e-mail address section of the account setup made a bit clearer and moved out of the bounce section. I think this is on the programmers to do list already.

The ability to set the SMTP server for each type of reporting so you could send reports directly to the destination server rather than going through your ISP's smtp servers.

*tag*

No worries

It would be of use to have the option for a filter to override other spam tools. I have a filter named "Joe-Jobs" for catching all mails that show spoofed "From" header with addresses under my domain. I intend use it for make a "special" treatment of this type of spam, but FirstAlert annoyingly takes over it.

Ah, and add me to this one too:

Well, after checking this by PM with Ikeb (thanks! ) we have concluded that you can make a filter to override both friends list and FirstAlert, but not only FA, that is what I intend to do.

So I stand asking for this enhancement: to provide a way for filters taking precedence over FirstAlert or the other spam tools, while still staying below the friends list.

I'm asking myself if it would be interesting to mimic Thunderbird and include the options to "Use TLS" and/or "Use TLS (if available)" for POP3 & SMTP.

It seems that TLS is going to replace SSL so...

I would like a feature that would slow the sending of reports to spamcop. If I have a lot of spam, as I have since the BF debacle, some of it gets dumped by my ISP as it will not allow that many emails at a time. I don't know if MWP is supposed to be able to tell that, but since my Norton Antivirus is the last program handling the emails before they leave, that is the one that tells me the emails were refused -- and leaves me no way of re-trying.

I've been using a local smtp server for spam submission and it is working well, connects directly from my computer to the desitination SMTP server so my ISP is left out of the loop.

The two I've tested are in a sticky in the general forum. /t151972-Fix_ISP_Wont_Send_Spam_Reports.html