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1. Download and Install SpamPal
2. Starting SpamPal
3. Setup your Email program
4. Using SpamPal
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Before installing SpamPal, it's a good idea
to first make sure that all your email accounts are working correctly.
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SpamPal can either be configured
to run in transparent
or non-transparent
mode.
a) In non-transparent
mode, the user has to reconfigure
their email program to use it. This can sometimes cause problems
for people, as changes have to be made to Username, Server Name
and sometimes even port numbers, in order to get SpamPal to filter
their email. So before
you make any changes, take a note
of your user id
and pop3 server name
b) In transparent mode, the user
doesn't have to reconfigure their email program to use it (apart
from a simple message rule).
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a) You will need administration
rights to perform the
initial installation/initialization of the transparent
proxy
- although admin rights aren't required to actually use it.
b) The transparent
mode version of SpamPal
is not installed by default for existing users of SpamPal.
There are three ways
the SpamPal transparent proxy can be installed:
1).
If you select the Custom
install type and choose the install
layered service provider option.
2).
If you go into the Connections
area of the SpamPal options
window and create any port settings with the proxy
type set to transparent.
3). If SpamPal cannot
find a configuration folder; it assumes this is a new installation
and creates a new configuration for you, and installs the
transparent proxy (this assumes that the user is running Window
2000/XP)
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| Now, download SpamPal and start
installation by double-clicking on the SpamPal Setup program (spampal.exe)
and follow the on-screen instructions. |
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time SpamPal runs, you will see the following Welcome
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Now, you have to decide how you wish to run
SpamPal:
a) SpamPal can run in the background as
a normal application,
this is the prefered method for single users of a machine, Windows
95/98 users or Windows
2000/XP users that don't
have access to administrator rights.
b) SpamPal can run in the background as a service,
should be the prefered method when multiple users, on a Windows
2000/XP pc, are sharing the same machine.
In the past, SpamPal has always run as an application.
Most programs you run on your computer will be applications. An application
is a program that isintended to be used by one
user at a time.
If a second user logs in and needs to use an application, a second
instance of the application must be executed and your computer is
then effectively running two separate application programs, which
happen to be identical.
A Windows Service
is one program that can be shared by
all the users of your computer. If a second user needs to
use a service you're using, they can share the same instance of
that service.
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a)
The service version
mode of SpamPal can only
run on Windows 2000 or Windows XP
b) You'll need administrator
rights to your machine.
c) The service version
of SpamPal does not
run the Bayesian plugin very well
and so this plugin should be disabled. |
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| 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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The next screen gives
you three options:
a. Assume ALL
mail from Chrian, Korea and Taiwan is spam |
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to use the RegExFilter plugin (which
is disabled by default) See Plugins
page for more details |
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to use the UrlBody plugin (which
is enabled by default) See Plugins
page for more details |
| Once 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. |
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If you want to use Hotmail or
Yahoo then you will see to use
additional third party tools, see this
page for more information.
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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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| If you are still having a problem,
why not give this setup page a try |
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 your email program, click here. |
| 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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| You 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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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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