This page gives instructions
on installing and setting-up SpamPal for use with the e-mail client
program Ameol. SpamPal works on Ameol's Internet mail but not on
its conferencing mail.
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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
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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 Ameol 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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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
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- Select the Settings menu, Mail... item,
and select the Internet tab.
- In the Login: field,
add to the end of the existing text an @ character
followed by the contents of the POP3
Server: field.
- Replace the contents
of the POP3 Server: field with 127.0.0.1.
For example, Screen before changes:
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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
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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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4. Click the OK button.
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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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Select Settings menu Rules item,
and then the incoming mail mailbox (by default Mail/Messages),
select the Properties item, select
the Rules tab, and click the New button. - In the Subject: field,
enter **SPAM** .
- Click the Make message
priority checkbox to untick it.
- Click the New... button,
and then click the Mailbox item,
enter Spam, click the button OK.
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- If there are other Rules already present on
this mailbox, you will probably want to position the new spam
rule appropriately in the list. You will probably want the spam
rule to take precedence over all others, in which case it needs
to be at the top of the list. Use the up arrow button to position
the spam rule.
- At the top of the Edit Rule dialog box, click
the button Ok
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This rule can falsely filter some
messages not SpamPal-marked; specifically those with Subject
containing the **SPAM** not
at the start. They include replies (e.g. Re: **SPAM**
...) to and forwarded versions (e.g. Fw: **SPAM**
...) of messages whose SpamPal marking you or your correspondent
had declined e.g. by manually restoring them to the inbox.
Ameol does not allow a rule to match
specifically the start-of-subject **SPAM**mark.
Hence watch out for such messages when reviewing spam. If
necessary to reduce the frequency of this problem you may
configure Ameol to automatically exempt cases of common prefixes
by adding rules to the Spam mailbox that restore them to
the inbox.
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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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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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the SpamPal Whitelist Email Addresses page
to manually whitelist
your email addresses: |
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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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the installation and setup. |
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