The spam just won't go away, even when I press delete

Peter-J · Cadet Joined: Jun 01, 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Hungary

I have been using the same version of Mailwasher since July 2002 and found it an excellent and indispensable tool in identifying and getting rid of unwanted email. Initially I have to admit I was bouncing the junk back but very quickly stopped shortly afterwards when I soon discovered that this simply generates more unnecessary traffic and returns the spam to hijacked addresses and not the spammers.

Since yesterday however I have been unable to delete any messages and it is making life extremely awkward as regards receiving genuine email.

I get the Message Exclamation:

rogerw · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject:

That's an old version of MW that I really don't have a lot of knowledge about ... but I think I can go out on a limb here and say "Hardware breaks - Software doesn't" meaning "Since you've been using the same software for so long, it's not a program problem - but something else".

Two things are likely going on:

stan_qaz · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 5:33 pm Post subject:

Your best bet is going to be by turnining on the extended logging under help about and trying to dig it out of there...

I'd get the 4.1 version (free) that comes with support here. I don't think your version is anymore.

Peter-J · Cadet Joined: Jun 01, 2004 Posts: 2 Location: Hungary

RogerW and Stan. Thanks for your suggestions. The problem has gone away. Here is what I did.

First I checked Outlook to see if it had started autodownloading - it hadn't -so I removed Mailwasher(MW) altogether and reloaded it, MW 1.32 that is, and my email accounts - it made no difference the error message kept coming up and I couldn't do anything with it. Then I downloaded MWpro and installed it - I was able to delete all the messages and there was no problem. Finally, out of curiousity, I removed MWpro and re-installed MW 1.32 and it works fine there are no error messages and I can delete etc. as before.

It might have been a problem with the ISP server software and the problem was resolved co-incidently while I was doing the above install / re-install etc as all this happened just after the long weekend. The ISP here in Hungary deletes most of the viruses from incoming mail before they send them on - No, I didn't ask them to do this they just do it anyway for everyone. It's a pity they don't delete all the spam too! I can see that some might regard this as an invasion of privacy but on the other hand ISPs also have a duty to their customers to keep viruses from infecting all their users and permutations of the Worm virus are everywhere.


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