. . . Mailwasher has actually labeled certain pieces of email as viruses. Of course, I delete them on the server.

My problem with using Spamcop-anything is that it is indiscriminate in it's labeling of emails. Like other blanket solutions, it takes into account hops that may be en route to you, and if a hop has gotten itself on a list for whatever reason, the email coming to you that uses that hop - even though legitimate - is labeled spam.

I am having to designate newsletters to which I have subscribed as "Friend," so the headers won't be compared to the lists used by Spamcop and it's analogs.

Spamcop isn't the only culprit blocking legitimate email because of its "guidelines," but a goodly number of very useful ezines are labeled spam by it.

On my list of things to do is an analysis of the emails that get screwed because of Spamcop's "helpfulness," and to try to determine why each is being rejected. Just eyeballing my subscriptions, one popular list service has been listed, so anything coming from there is labeled Spam.

(That's what happened in the case of both Seedzine and the Ehotsheet.)

My recommendation is to use Mailwasher, let it show you what mail you have on the server, then you label the stuff you want so it gets through to you.

Marye