My funky Mailwasher software decided it didn’t like to run on my newly installed PC. It used to run fantastic, but now it doesn’t check email on startup until I doubleclick on it and after a couple of checks, it dies. I can’t download a new version because Mailwasher has gone all Commercial and I have no bucks so I started looking around to see what else is available.
I found a nice application called AvirMail. It might require Visual Basic libraries, but it’s nice and it seems to do all I wanted, plus more. It supports up to nine different mail accounts (iirc) and has AntiSpam abilities — filtering built in. I’ve set it up for a couple of my email POP accounts and tested it and it works well. It sits in the system tray and has a little icon which changes colour to let you know it’s checking email and when you have new email the icon changes and it makes a sound. It has more features, but that’s all I require. Let’s see how it goes for the next week or so. It also automatically adds itself to autostart when Windows boots up, which is great. Give it a go if you need a POP email checker and antispam filtering app… AND IT’S FREEWARE!
I’ve added more clothing for Second Life to my ZigZag.Soft website. Go have a look!
July 18th, 2005 at 8:16 am - Edit
Server-side filtering is still easier and more convenient.