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1. Download and Install SpamPal
2. Starting
SpamPal
3. Setup
your Email program
4.
Using SpamPal
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Make sure your email accounts
work properly before you install SpamPal, and make a careful written
note of your user id and pop3 server name before you start changing
settings for spampal. Keep those settings in a safe place, just
in case you need to put them back.
Now download
SpamPal and 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 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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first time SpamPal runs, you will see the following Welcome Screen: |
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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 (for example Outlook
Express) to use port 1110
instead of 110.
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you choose the level of filtering that SpamPal will start with, the
default is Medium level, although
if you are really nervous, choose the Safe
level. |
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level you choose, can be modified later, if the level you choose
is filtering too little (or too much) |
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SpamPal is installed, it will launch itself
and you should see the SpamPal umbrella icon in your systray:
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Now you have set
up SpamPal, you now need to configure your email program, so that
all emails are received through the SpamPal POP3/IMAP4 Proxy, instead
of directly through to your ISP's POP3 Server.
If you want to use Hotmail or Yahoo then
you will see to use additional third party tools, see this page
for more information.
If you are an MSN user, you may have some
luck using the following server names when you
configure your setup:
POP3 Server: pop3.email.msn.com
SMTP
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The following generic
setup instructions can now be used to setup your email program,
however,
specific setup details for your email program can be found here
To reconfigure your email program,
first make a careful note of your original settings.
You should append whatever value you
currently have in your HOST setting,
to whatever you currently have in
the Username field (seperated
with a @ sign), and change the HOST setting
to 127.0.0.1.
e.g. if your original values were:
Host: your.mailserver.com
Username: fred.bloggs
then you would, for example, change them to:
Host: 127.0.0.1
Username: fred.bloggs@your.mailserver.com
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For example, before
using SpamPal your email program setup would look something like
this:
| mail.btopenworld.com
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| 110
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| my_login_name
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| ********
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Afterwards, your new
email program setup would, for example, look like this:
| 127.0.0.1
| Port:
| 110
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| my_login_name@mail.btopenworld.com
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| ********
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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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| If you are still having a problem,
why not give this setup page a
try |
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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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 (for example Outlook
Express) to use port 1110
instead of 110.
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Now Click on Send/Receive
on your email program, you should see that the SpamPal umbrella icon
in the system tray starts to revolve: |
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Your
firewall software will probably inform you that SpamPal.exe
is trying to access the internet, this is completely
normal and you should tell your firewall, to
allow Spampal access to the internet.
SpamPal will also, from time to time, access it's own homepage
to check for updates, again, your firewall may warn you about
this, so again, tell your firewall to allow Spampal access
to the internet |
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should now see emails being received as normal, however, if SpamPal
thinks that an email is spam then the Subject
line will have **SPAM**
added to the beginning of your Subject line
and an extra header will
be added to your message, X-SpamPal: SPAM |
From:
i_am_a@spammer.co.uk
To: yourname@yourisp.co.uk
Subject: **SPAM** FREE $ FOR YOU !!!
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:30:40 +0100
X-SpamPal: SPAM
SPCOP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx |
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In
order to help separate this spam from your normal inbox,
you need to setup a message rule, in your email
program, to move these tagged
messages into a spamtrap folder.
For details on how to do this for you email program, click here. |
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Please
don't use massive email address blacklists with SpamPal,
particularly not those from general purpose sites. Those are
intended for spam detecting systems which can't use DNS blacklists,
regular expressions or other advanced spam detection methods.
Using a massive blacklist is not usually productive, as spammers usually forge
their email address and never use the same address
twice. If you regularly get spam from the same address and for some reason it
is not being picked up by the public blacklists then it can be useful to add
it to your own personal blacklist.
However, most people only have a handful of
addresses in their blacklists. If
you have too many you will slow down SpamPal quite significantly,
and be creating a lot of work for yourself without achieving anything
useful.
This reasoning also applies to email programs, such as Outlook and Outlook Express
that have the facility to block senders by email address (called Junk
Senders/Adult Content senders). It is usually better to stop using
those features and leave SpamPal to do it's job.
To ensure
you get the most out of SpamPal, the following pages of the manual
are must reads
How to use SpamPal
Detailed Setup Guide
How to Configure SpamPal
How to Optimise SpamPal
Headers Guide
SpamPal Plugin Guide
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