On Sat, 19 May 2018 22:39:27 -0400, Steve wrote:

On 5/18/2018 1:23 PM, Good Guy wrote:
Now the first thing you should do is to get rid of that crap called Mail
Washer.* It might be the one that is making your system unstable.

There are really good mail clients like "Microsoft Outlook",
"Thunderbird" and "Windows 10 Mail App".* They all can block spam.

I use Thunderbird. Mail washer is just a prescreener that I use for 2 of
my addresses. It supposedly lets me delete unwanted mail before anything
actually reaches my computer.

That's why I stopped using it after giving it a try 10+ years ago. It
required me to look at and make a decision for every single email, but
it forced me to do so within its interface rather than in a proper email
client where it's much easier to ignore and/or delete the stuff that I
don't care about. With MailWasher, I saw only cons, no pros.

It also lets me "bounce" mail. It's
supposed to make it look like there is no such address, but even the
Mail washer people admit it doesn't fool most spammers.

Hopefully, you never use the bounce feature. Spammers don't send email
from their own domain, so when you bounce what you think is spam, it
goes back to some other domain where the folks there have to deal with
it. That's not cool.