This page gives instructions
on installing and setting-up SpamPal for use with the e-mail client
program,
Forte Agent (www.forteinc.com).
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1. Install
SpamPal
2. Configure
SpamPal
3. Configure
your email program
3.1 Change your POP3 settings
3.2 Change your IMAP4 Settings
3.3 Change your SMTP settings
3.4 Create Filter/Message rules
4. Email
Virus Scanners and Firewalls
5. Whitelist
friends and contacts
5.1 Export your contacts email addresses
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Start installation by double-clicking on the SpamPal
Setup program (spampal.exe) and follow
the on-screen instructions. Upon completion, SpamPal will run, showing
its pink umbrella icon in your system tray.
If this installation is an upgrade of SpamPal
then the existing configuration of Agent is retained and the process
is now complete. If not, i.e. this is a new installation of SpamPal,
proceed with the steps below.
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you need to know about extra configuration can be found here |
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Now
you have set up SpamPal, you need to tell your email program to fetch
your mail through the SpamPal proxy rather than directly from your
ISP.
You need to how you collect mail from your ISP, for example, if you
use POP3 to collect your mail then your only need to change your POP3
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Go to Options and click on the Inbound
Email tab.
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Screen before
changes:
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To reconfigure your email program,
first make a careful note of your original settings.
You should append whatever value
you currently have in your POP
Server setting,
to whatever you currently have in
the Username field (seperated
with a @ sign), and change the POP Server setting
to 127.0.0.1.
e.g. if your original values were:
POP Server: your.mailserver.com
Username: fred.bloggs
then you would, for example, change them to:
POP Server: 127.0.0.1
Username: fred.bloggs@your.mailserver.com
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You
may, at this point, get an error message about SpamPal not being
able to listen on the standard POP3 port.This is nothing to
be worried about; just write down the port number SpamPal tells
you and continue with this guide
This message means SpamPal is using Port 1110
instead of 110.
You don't have to put it into SpamPal because SpamPal already
knows it is using port 110.
Instead, you have to tell your email program to use port 1110
instead of 110.
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worry; just add @localhost to the username and leave the server
name as is |
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regardless; SpamPal copes with usernames that contain two @s
without difficulty. |
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| Incoming
Mail (POP3):mail.btopenworld.com |
Incoming
Mail (POP3): 127.0.0.1 |
| Username: fred.bloggs |
Username: fred.bloggs@mail.btopenworld.com |
| Incoming
Mail (POP3): pop.west.cox.net |
Incoming
Mail (POP3): 127.0.0.1 |
| Username: johnsmith |
Username:johnsmith@pop.west.cox.net |
| Incoming
Mail (POP3): pop.telus.net |
Incoming
Mail (POP3): 127.0.0.1 |
| Username: fax07734 |
fax07734@pop.telus.net |
| Incoming
Mail (POP3): 192.168.1.1 |
Incoming
Mail (POP3): 127.0.0.1 |
| Username: mary_jones |
Username: mary_jones@192.168.1.1 |
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The
above Incoming POP3
Server Name, can be called:
Incoming Mail
Server, POP3 server, POP3 Username
or Account Name depending on your email program.
There are also two ways of specifying the local
server name, which should mean exactly the same thing (but on
some system only one of them will work): localhost
or 127.0.0.1 |
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| If you are still having a problem,
why not give this setup page a
try |
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Forte
Agent cannot use IMAP4
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to use SpamPal's SMTP Proxy to auto-whitelist any email addresses
that you send to, you will need to change Agent's SMTP settings, as
follows |
| Go to Options
and select User and System Profile
and click on the System
tab |
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Now, take
a note of your current SMTP Email Server,
for example: smtp.myisp.co.uk
Now change the current SMTP Email Server,
to: 127.0.0.1
Now go to SpamPal's Connections
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Now click on Add port
and change the Port Type to SMTP
Now, change the Server Name to
the SMTP server name you noted down earlier, e.g..smtp.myisp.co.uk
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| Now, whenever
you send an email, SpamPal will automatically auto-whitelist it |
Occasionally,
a spammer might forge the email address of someone who is
in your auto-whitelist - for example, a colleague or an alternate
email address or yours. While you don't want to put this
person
in your blacklist because they send you lots of genuine email,
you don't want them to end up in your auto-whitelist and
bypass
SpamPal's spam-checking features.
Clicking on the Exclusions
pane will bring up a window into which you can enter the email
addresses of people who should never be added to the auto-whitelist.
Just add your colleagues here and you won't have to worry
about spammers forging their addresses to bypass SpamPal's
filtering. You can even add your entire employer's domain
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Go to Options and
select User and
System Profile and
click on the System tab.
Now, make sure you enable Login
with a username and password and
enter your original
username and password i.e..
What they were before you modified the username to install
SpamPal. You should also tick the Remember password
between sessions box and enter
your smtp password.
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If you are are
using an IMAP4 server, you
will not need to setup a filter/message rule on your email program,
as SpamPal moves any spam tagged messages automatically into a folder called inbox.spamtrap on
your
server.
If you are are using a POP3 server
and want your email program to automatically filter the SpamPal-marked messages
into a separate Mailbox, so that you can more easily review them, continue
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Assuming you've already got a folder setup in
Agent, for example, called spam,
then: Click on the Window Tab and then click on Open
Email filters
Now Click on the Filter Tab and then click on
Add Watch filter
Now, setup the filter, like the screen seen below,
which will move any SpamPal marked messages into the spam
folder:
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You could also change the Kill
Action to Delete,
which would delete the Spam tagged message automatically
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Specific instructions for using a variety of email
virus scanners with SpamPal can be found on the main
installation page
Some email virus filters want to sit between your
mail program and your mail server in just the way that SpamPal does.
There's actually no reason why they can't; you just have them up
in serial so that your virus filter fetches its mail through SpamPal
rather than directly from your mailserver, and then your email program
fetches the mail through the virus filter.
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Versions 4.0.123.012 and higher of
ZoneAlarm Pro let you optionally configure certain events
when applications ask for Internet access. The default configuration,
however, can cause Agent to freeze in certain instances.
To correct this behaviour, open the
ZoneAlarm Pro control panel and click Program Control. Next
select Agent and then click on the Options button. This will
open a small window titled Program Options. The Authenticate
Components option under the category, Authentication is checked
by default. Change this to Authenticate program by full path
name only.
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If you are using the HTMLModify plugin
(see this page
for more details) you can setup an additional filter that will seperate
bad attachments (eg. .scr/.bat/.pif) etc.
(as marked by the HTMLModify plugin) into a seperate folder than
your main spam folder.
Assuming you've already got a folder setup in
Agent, for example, called virus,
then:
Click on the Window Tab and then click on Open
Email filters
Now Click on the Filter Tab and then click on Add
Watch filter
Now, setup the filter, like the screen seen below,
which will move any HTMLModify bad attachments into
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In order to speed up the processing of your emails
and to prevent SpamPal from marking your friends or contact's emails
as spam, it's a good idea at this point to whitelist all your important
email addresses.
This can be done in four ways:
a) Use the pop3
automatic whitelist: this will whitelist non-spam
email's that you receive on a frequent basis
b) Use the smtp
automatic whitelist: which (if setup in 3.3)
will whitelist all email addresses that you send out
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you are using this, especially in a business, as this is recording
all outgoing addresses, some people might view this as an infringement
upon their privacy, (if you are in UK you need to tell staff
of this policy before you start collecting data) |
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c) use
the Add to Whitelist
option on SpamPal's system tray: to manually
whitelist your email addresses by typing in an address (or by using
the dropdown box; to select from a list of recently received address):
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With Agent, you can do this, using Age2Txt
which is a command line program to automatically extract your Agent
addresses, into a format that can be cut and pasted into the Whitelist
Email Addresses panel, which you access from the SpamPal options
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The
whitelist function only looks for email addresses in certain
headers of your email.
These headers are currently: From:,
Reply-To:,
Sender:, Mailing-List:
and Return-Path: |
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Initially,
you will notice that using SpamPal makes fetching your email a little
slower. This is because SpamPal has to check everything against
the DNSBL lists (Public Blacklists) to see what email's are from
a spammer and which aren't.
However,
through it's Auto-Whitelist feature(s), SpamPal will quickly learn
about the people and machines that send you lots of email, and adds
them to a list of trusted senders. Because they're trusted, SpamPal
doesn't waste time any checking the DNSBL lists (Public Blacklists)
for them and so the more you use SpamPal, the quicker it will get.
There are more hints and tip on how to optimise SpamPal here |
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| You can go
to this plugin
page and download the age2txt program
to automatically export
your Agent email addresses, so that you can quickly whitelist
your contacts which will speed up the processing of your emails
and to prevent SpamPal from marking your friends or contact's emails
as spam. |
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