E-mail preview programs

[Barry Karas]

9-Sep-06



I use two e-mail preview programs - they both are not 100% accurate although
they used to be. I receive ± 100 messages per day. (I've been using PCs
since the early '90s and was not careful at first 'cause I didn't know
better.) Luckily, the preview programs make it easy to delete junk.



The first program is MailWasher Pro. The second is not really a program but
a web site: that of Adelphia, my ISP. My e-mail program is MS Outlook.



Let's say a preview program indicates that I have 60 e-mail messages. I
delete 50 of them, leaving me 10 messages. Then I download the remaining
messages in Outlook - Outlook downloads 13 e-mail messages. (The reason why
I use two preview programs is that I should to use two to check each other -
and I get the discrepancy with both programs.)



Is there a way to reduce this discrepancy? (I have WinXP Pro w/ SP2)



Thank you,



Barry Karas

 

[Chuck Davis]

Barry,

As the spam blockers become better, so do the spammers. Different spam
blockers are by definition different and never will be exactly the same. If
they were the same , you wouldn't need to put up with the overhead that they
cause.

Outlook 2003 (you didn't mention yours) does a credible job of placing 60 to
70 messages a day into my Junk Mail folder. Easily dumped to the Deleted
items folder which is emptied on closing.