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 Netscape Communicator 4 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 Netscape Messenger mail client, then select Preferences from the Edit menu. Click on Mail Servers in the list on the right.

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

then you would, for example, change them to:

Server Name: 127.0.0.1
User Name: fred.bloggs%your.mailserver.com

Screen after changes:

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 Netscape, 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.

You may find that you're downloading all your old mail again. This will occur if you have the leave messages on server option checked. Do not worry; it will only happen the once.

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Select Message Filters from the Edit menu to bring up the list of message filters. Click New to create a new one, and call it SpamPal.

Click the Advanced button then enter X-SpamPal in the New Message Header field and click Add to add it to the list. Close the advanced dialog by clicking OK.

From the drop-down list of message headers (which defaults to subject), select X-SpamPal from the bottom of the list. Leave the box beside it on contains and enter SPAM in the rightmost box.

Now change the action to Move to folder and click New folder. Name the folder Spam Trap and position it wherever you want. Click OK to create the folder. You should have ended up with a filter that looks a bit 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.