VPOP3 is
an Internet email server and gateway for small and medium sized
businesses (and some larger ones too!) SpamPal can be easily be used
to provide front-end protection from SPAM for all VPOP3 mailboxes
that are setup.
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1. Install
SpamPal
2. Configure
SpamPal
3. Configure
your VPOP3 Server
3.1 Change your POP3 settings
3.2 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 VPOP3 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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To setup SpamPal,
go to Options and then look at the
Connections pane (see screen below).
Now select the POP3 (any servername)
option and click Properties |
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the Local Port Number
to port 1101 (see screen below)
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you need to know about extra configuration can be found here |
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Now
you have set up SpamPal, you need to tell your VPOP3 server 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 POP3
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Go to the VPOP3 Settings
page in VPOP3
Now, write down the name of your POP3
Server in the Address box
(e.g..pop3.yourisp.com) and then replace
this with 127.0.0.1
Now add an @ symbol and
the POP3
Server that you wrote down earlier, to the User
ID box
(e.g.. my_login_name@pop3.yourisp.com)
(The setup should look like the screen below)
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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
POP3 Server Name: pop3.yourisp.com |
Incoming
POP3 Server Name: localhost |
| Username:
name@surname |
Username:name@surname@pop3.yourisp.com |
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| Incoming
POP3 Server Name: mail.yourisp.com |
Incoming
POP3 Server Name: 127.0.0.1 |
| Username:
my_login_name |
my_login_name@mail.yourisp.com |
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(using LAN IP Address)
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| Incoming
POP3 Server Name: 192.168.1.1 |
Incoming
POP3 Server Name: 127.0.0.1 |
| Username:
my_login_name |
Username:
my_login_name@192.168.1.1 |
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If you
want VPOP3 to automatically filter the SpamPal-marked messages into
a separate VPOP3 Mailbox,
so that you can more easily review them, continue as follows. |
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a) Setup a new VPOP user, called SPAM
b) In the directory that you used to install VPOP3
(e.g.. C:\Program Files\VPOP3) you should have the download rules
(or filters) that VPOP3 uses, when processing mail, called DLRULES.DAT.
If you want any Spampal detected messages to be
moved to the SPAM Mailbox, so
that the users don't seem them, then you need to add the following
lines to the end of your DLRULES.DAT
file:
+>spam%Redirect
spam into the 'spam' mailbox
X-SpamPal: SPAM
c) Now any SPAM
messages you receive will go to the SPAM
Mailbox, for you to either View, Delete or Move into another VPOP3
Mailbox
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sure you are using a version of vpop3™ higher
than 1.4.6 beta
You can also change the download rule
to filter on Subject, instead of the X-SpamPal header:
+>spam%Redirect spam into
the 'spam' mailbox
Subject: **SPAM**
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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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Use 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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