How to set up My Blacklist |

The Blacklist gives you an easy way to banish spammers from your inbox, as it is an effective tool against email from mailing lists that you may have unwittingly signed up for (or been submitted to), or from companies who take no notice of your unsubscribe requests.

Once an address is marked for your Blacklist, the next time you receive an email from that address, it is automatically marked for deletion. To find out how to customize your Blacklist, see the Related Links at the bottom of this page.

To view My Blacklist:

then click My Blacklist from the tree, or

View > Filter Sidebar or

[Ctrl] + [F7]

There are six ways to add a sender to the Blacklist.

Complete one of the steps below to add a sender.

Step | Action
1 | In the MailWasher Pro message table, select the Blacklist checkbox, in the Blacklist column, next to the selected message. When you next click , your Blacklist is updated. If you do not have the Blacklist column visible, select Tools > Options and select the Display tab to configure your message table. See Setting up Options - Display tab.
2 | Left mouse click on a message to select it, and while holding down the mouse key, drag the message to your Blacklist in the Filter sidebar. Release the mouse and the sender is added to your list.
3 | Right mouse click on a message in the message table and select Add to Blacklist. You can also Mark all for Blacklist to mark all emails in the message table for Blacklisting. To do this, right click the column header and select Mark all for the Blacklist.
4 | Select a message in the message table and press [-] on your keyboard.
5 | With the message selected, click Email > Add to Blacklist from the MailWasher Pro menu

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Select the Blacklist tab from the Filters sidebar, or click and then My Blacklist and then to display the Add address to list window.

Enter the address of the sender you want to add to your Blacklist in the Exact email address field, and click to add the sender.

How to manage My Blacklist How to use wildcard expressions in My Blacklist How to remove senders from My Blacklist How to edit My Blacklist How to customize My Blacklist | Can I import an existing Blacklist? How can I backup My Blacklist?

Troubleshooting

Can I import an existing Blacklist?

Yes, if the existing Blacklist is a plain text file of email addresses.

Copy and paste your Blacklist entries to the Blacklist file (Blacklist.txt), located in the application data directory which can be located by selecting MailWasher Pro > Help > About > select the blue link at the bottom.

MailWasher Pro must be closed before opening this file and remain closed until you have entered and saved your changes. The format of the file must be specific to one email address per line, with no extra characters like commas etc. The Blacklist is contained under the heading [Blacklisted emails]. The Friends List is also contained in this file under the heading [Whitelisted emails].

How can I backup My Blacklist?

Open MailWasher Pro > Help > About and click the blue link at the bottom to the data directory.
Copy Blacklist.txt (which contains your Friends list as well as the Blacklist) and save to floppy or similiar.
To reinsert into MailWasher Pro, paste into the same location, although ensure MailWasher Pro is completely closed down when you so this, in order for the text file to be saved.