How to set up My Friends List |

The Friends list is where you can add your friends email addresses so their mail is always recognized as Friend and will not be deleted or filtered. The Friends list contains the email addresses of people from whom you always want to receive mail, regardless of the content. Messages received from an address on your Friends list will be marked as Friend regardless of whether or not the message resembles spam. To find out how to customize your Friend's list, see the Related Links at the bottom of this page.

The Friends list takes the highest priority in the Spam Tools precedence. Even if you have Blacklisted an entire domain, you can still receive email from friends from that domain with the status of Friend, if they are added to the Friends list.

An email address in your Friends list can only be filtered if you have selected:

This Filter takes precedence over the Friends list in your Filters options.

See How to set up my Filters for more information.

To view My Friends list:

then click My Friends List from the tree, or

View > Filter Sidebar, or

[Ctrl] + [F7]

There are seven ways to add a sender to the Friends list.

Complete one of the steps below to add a sender.

Step | Action
1 | In the MailWasher Pro message table, select the Friends List checkbox, in the Friends column, next to the selected message. When you next click , your Friends list is updated. If you do not have the Friends column visible, select Tools > Options and select the Display tab to configure your message table. See Setting up Options - Display.
2 | Left mouse click on a message to select it, and while holding down the mouse key, drag the message to your Friends list 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 Friends list.
4 | Select a message in the message table and press [+] on your keyboard.
5 | With the message selected, click Email > Add to friends list from the MailWasher Pro menu

6

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

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

7 | Select the Friends list tab from the Filters sidebar and click , or click and then and then to display the Import Address Books window. Select the contact you want to import and click to import all addresses to MailWasher Pro.

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Troubleshooting

Can I import my Outlook Contacts into My Friends list?

Unfortunately not, as Outlook does not store the contacts in the Windows Address Book.

As a work around you can export your Outlook Contacts list to a CSV file, import this into your Windows Address Book, which MailWasher Pro can then read.

To do this:
Outlook > File > Import and Export > Export to file > Next > Comma Separated Values (Windows) > Next > select your Contacts Folder > Next > select the save location of your address.CSV > Next > Finish.

Then go to:
Outlook Express > File > Import > Other Address Book > Text File (Comma Separated Values) > Import > select the address.CSV file you just created > Next > Finish > OK then Close to exit the Address Book Import Tool.

MailWasher Pro will now be able to see your addresses in your Windows Address Book so you can use the Import Address Book function as described on this page.

How can I backup My Friends list?

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.