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 TheBat is retained and the process is now complete. If not, i.e. this is a new installation of SpamPal, proceed with the steps below.

Load The Bat, then select Properties from the Account menu. Click on the Transport option in the list to the left, and you should see something like this: (Screen before changes)

Mail Server: your.mailserver.com
User: fred.bloggs

then you would, for example, change them to:

Mail Server: 127.0.0.1
User: fred.bloggs@your.mailserver.com

Now try to check your mail; if you don't get any errors, continue to the next step. You may be asked to re-enter your POP3 passwords; this is nothing to worry about. If you get an error from TheBat, check that you've configured the incoming POP3 server to localhost and, if necessary, that the port has been set right. If you get an error from SpamPal, check you've added the servername to the username correctly, and that your Internet connection is active.

IMAP4 only works with recently available 2.0 version

Load The Bat, then select Properties from the Account menu. Click on the Transport option in the list to the left. Now make sure you change the Protocol to IMAP4 and you should see something like this:

From the Account menu select Sorting Office/Filters. Select Incoming Mail from the list of filter types then click New to bring up the filter creation window,

On the Rules tab, give your filter a sensible name then in the first Filtered Strings box type ^X-SpamPal: SPAM, and set Location to Anywhere.

Now click the little tree icon beside this latter option, then click New and create a folder called spamtrap

Now click OK to return back to the main filter screen.

So, your message rule should now look like this:

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.

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

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):

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.