Mailwasher is only client-side filtering
in a way - it downloads the headers rather than the whole mail, allows you to select/preselect what you don't want and then deletes them all from the server
long before they hit your machine.
Since a trip to Buenos Aires a couple of years ago I get lots of medical advertising spam from South America, mostly from a couple of adsites, that would take ages to download and clog my machine. Messages to
[email protected] and
[email protected] have been ignored. Before I connect, Mailwasher checks my badlist and starts by deleting all the known unwanted crap from the server and I can just tick off a few more before fetching my mail.
These are quasi-legit sites and
there is no way for me (or most people) to set up my own personal email filter at my ISP (who in fact does a pretty good job themselves of deleting obvious spam and malware).
AFAIK none of the big ISPs in S. Africa have this facility.
So Mailwasher it is - why are you so agin it mix?
And no, I don't bounce stuff - it has little effect and just clogs up the Web even more.
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