Good but ...

Pros: - One of the better mail filter programs.

Cons: - All mail filter programs just get tiresome and ineffective after a while. Spam will just find other ways in. And you have to constantly add to the never ending blacklist and keywords.

- Hence, a better but harsher way is to simply filter out any mail not from people in your address book. But MailWasher and most/all mail filter programs strangely are not designed to do this simple task despite their array of filtering features.

BUT OUTLOOK EXPRESS CAN! SIMPLY FOLLOW THESE STEPS:-

1. Open Outlook Express.

2. Go to Tools > Message Rules > Mail.

3. A "New Mail Rule" window should appear. (If the "Message Rules" window appears instead, you already have a rule. Click "New" in this case to get to the New Mail Rule window.)

4. In the New Mail Rule window, select the "Condition"; "Where the From line contains people". Then under "Rule Description", click the highlighted text, "contains people".

5. In the new window "Select People", click "Address Book" and add all of your Address Book entries to the "From" list on the right. Click OK.

6. Back in the Select People window, click "Options". In the new window, change the 1st rule to, "Message does not contain the people below" and make sure the 2nd rule is, "Message matches any one of the people below". Click OK.

7. Back in the New Mail Rule window, select your "Actions". I suggest, "Move it to the specified folder". At the bottom for Rule Description, select the highlighted text, "specified". In the new window "Move", specifiy the folder you want. Click OK.

8. Give a name to your new rule. Click OK.

9. Click "Apply Now". (Apply your new rule to your Inbox).

10. All mail not from people in your address book will now go to the folder you specified. (You can review them there incase there is a legitimate mail.)

Posted: 22-Sep-2007 12:29:32 AM

Try Nitro PDF Pro lah...

Pros: I guess it's still the best PDF editor around. But...

Cons: The install takes a long time and takes up 1.7GB of your harddisk space. Why in the world does it require so much disk space? (MS Office Pro 2003 only takes up a few hundred MB.) It is also very expensive at US$449. So people are going for the popular alternative - Nitro PDF Professional. It takes up only 40MB of disk psace and can do just about most of what Acrobat can or what the average PDF user requires. And it's only US$99.

Posted: 26-Apr-2007 06:44:06 PM