E-mail filters

[snowman]

On my Yahoo account, I'm getting junk from advertisers.

I can't access the anti-spam thing they're supposed to have (maybe it's not available for Canadian users).

The addresses I'm getting are in the following format:

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Is it possible to create a wildcard web-based e-mail filter (think back to ye olde days of DOS where the asterisk and the question mark could take wildcard places in file names) which will ignore everything except the eight characters before the .COM?

I tried it in a Yahoo mail filter and it doesn't seem to work. Maybe there is a better way?

[GaryK]

You could use MailWasher to retrieve your mail from Yahoo and then make use of MWs wildcard filter characters.

[snowman]

Ok.....what is "MailWasher" and is it platform dependent?

[bill]

MailWasher runs on Win95 / 98 / Me / NT4 / 2000 / XP / XP Pro and can be found thru a search on Google pretty easily. It doesn't work with HotMail and AOL....yet. The new version which supports this is advertised as being available this month...although it was supposed to be available last month. It will work with Yahoo if you are using the POP account version. I don't think this will work with the online version as is.

[snowman]

So there is no version of Mailwasher available for Macintosh?

[bill]

So there is no version of Mailwasher available for Macintosh?

Not that I've seen. Maybe there's something like it out there for Mac...one of our Mac people might be able to suggest something.