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Installing SpamPal
1. Download and Install SpamPal
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.
2. Starting SpamPal
The first time SpamPal runs, you will see the following Welcome Screen:
Note 1: Standard Ports
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.
Next, 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.
Note 2: Filtering Strategy
the level you choose, can be modified later, if the level you choose is filtering too little (or too much)
Once SpamPal is installed, it will launch itself and you should see the SpamPal umbrella icon in your systray
3. Setup your email program
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.
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
You will need to change the following two settings in your mail program's configuration (If you have more than one POP3 mailbox, repeat this step for each of them.):
For example, before using SpamPal your email program setup would look like this:
Afterwards, your new email program setup would look like this:
Note 1: Server names
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
Note 2: Standard Ports
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.
Now Click on Send/Receive on your email program, you should see that the SpamPal umbrella icon in the system tray starts to revolve:
Note 3: Firewall Software
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
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
Example: Spam Email
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
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 folder.
For details on how to do this for you email program, click here.
4. Using SpamPal
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
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