??? Can anyone here tell me if Avast works with the Mail Washer program??? What I want to know is if I run Mail Washer will the Avast still detect viruses…
Hi sears54,
I don’t personally use mailwasher, but there is a thread here http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=1483;start=msg8911#msg8911 about Spam tools. You’ll see that Technical who is experienced with Avast seems hapy with the combination. Hopefully he’ll tell you himself.
Good luck,
Walker
I use Mailwasher Pro with Avast avast and experience no issues at all.
Have aslo set up configurations with Mailwasher standard.
All have no worries. 
w0mbat
I’ll second what w0mbat says. I have also used MailWasher, both PRO and free, with avast! with no problems.
The mail scanning is completely independent of MailWasher. MW does not download the email, at least not any kind of attachments, executables, webbugs or whatever that might be harmful (only text). Whatever email I decide to keep after reviewing it is downloaded into Outlook and is scanned by the avast! Oulook program as normal.
If it is possible to download something harmful in MW the resident scanner should catch it, but I have never heard of anything like that happening and I believe it would be very unlikely if not impossible. I believe you will actually be safer using MW along with avast! as another layer of defense as you can delete all questionable email on the server.
Technical might be able to explain better or correct me, but I’m positive you will not be any less safe with mailwasher.
Jarron
Jarron told everything. w0mbat and Walker are correct too.
MailWasher has one limitation at the Freeware version: just one POP account.
Fortunately, I have the old 2.0 version, works perfectly with avast! and allow more the one POP account.
No troubles with viruses using MW and avast! 
Tech,
What are the benefits of using MW as opposed to filtering tools in Outlook (or in my case Pegasus)… I’ve never tried MW
Thanks.
You´ll have more freedom and possibilities of configuration…
MW just download few information about the emails, filter them (black list and friends list), you can save (export) your configuration for using in another machine (which is not posible with OE), you can delete the e-mail before it was downloaded from the server… Lots os advantages, if you want more information, try the developer web page.
Thanks Tech,
I’ll have a look at the link, but it looks as though I’ve already got all of that with Pegasus
I prefer Magic Mail Monitor or PopPeeper over the new Mailwasher because they are 100% freeware with no limitations
Cheers, Lito.
They were quite different applications:
Magic Mail Monitor has the following primary features:
easy to learn explorer-like user interface
unlimited number of maildrops
thorough status reporting
secure information storing
secure authentication supported via APOP
custom notifications per each mailbox
MCI device playback notification
shell open command notification
pop-up message notification
message header preview
time elapsed since last successful check
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Description
POP Peeper is a utility that runs in your Windows task bar and alerts you when you have new email on any of your POP3, Hotmail, MSN or Yahoo accounts. You can also use POP Peeper to read and delete your email. POP Peeper supports HTML email, so you can see your email the same way as you would in your email client.
Requirements
- Windows Operating System
- One or more supported email accounts
- Internet Explorer 4 (or better) for certain features (Webmail and viewing HTML)
POP Peeper these ones:
Completely Free: No Ads. No Registration. No Fees.
Easy Setup
Compatible with the following Server Types: POP3, Hotmail\MSN, Yahoo
Read and delete email without opening your email client
HTML Email Support
Save or Open File attachments
No account limit – notifies you of an unlimited number of accounts
Be notified of new email with visual and\or audible indicators
But neither of them automatic delete or black list the senders… They do not allow to see the plain text of the message body…
We are talking about quite different applications from MailWasher…
If anybody wants to configure Spamihilator and avast! to be used in the same computer, please, see this related forum.