HELP NOTES: (SpamGuard can be configured in the Mail
Manager section.)
- Turn On SpamGuard
- When this is checked, the rules for blocked and Spam e-mails are
activated. To check or uncheck, make sure to click on 'Save
Settings' after you make the change.
- Blocked E-mails
- Based on the rules below, the program will take e-mails that
contain words that you indicate as unwanted, and either delete the
e-mails or store them in the 'blocked mails' file.
- Block E-mail address
- Enter an e-mail address, click on 'Add Block', and then
click on 'Save Settings' to add that e-mail address to the
list of Blocked Addresses.
- Blocked addresses
- Any e-mail from an e-mail address in this list will be blocked.
Select one or more of the addresses, click on 'Remove Block',
and then click on 'Save Settings' to remove them from the
list.
- Block words
- Enter a single word, click on 'Add Block', and then click
on 'Save Settings' to add that word to the list of Blocked
Words.
- Blocked words
- If there is an occurrence of any word on this list in an e-mail,
then that e-mail will be blocked. Select one or more of the words,
click on 'Remove Block', and then click on 'Save
Settings' to remove them from the list.
- Blocked mails will be stored to file
- If you want the blocked e-mail to be deleted, then leave this
field blank. If you leave this field blank, then all blocked e-mails
will be deleted. To make the field blank, you need to highlight the
text in the field, press delete on your keyboard, and then click on
'Save Settings'. To empty the contents of the file, click on
the 'Empty' link. NOTE: To delete all blocked e-mails,
you need to make sure this field is blank, not merely empty the file
of its contents.
- If you do not want the blocked e-mail to be deleted, then you
need to enter a filename. You can also indicate directories. The
directories and filename must be made up of alpha characters, the
underscore, or the dash. No other special character can be used,
e.g., the period. Once you make the change, make sure to click on
'Save Settings'.
- Valid Examples:
- blocked_mail
- mail/blocked_mail
- Invalid Examples:
- domain-mail/blocked_mail.txt
- mail/blocked.txt
- HINT: You can store e-mails that the program has blocked to
your -mail directory, and then create a user in your mail manager that
matches the name of the 'blocked mails' file. This will allow
you to retrieve an e-mail that you know is not Spam.
- Spam E-mails
- The program will determine whether an e-mail is Spam based upon a
scoring system that uses the lists of Spam and Non-Spam words. The
more Spam words in an e-mail, the greater potential for the program to
mark the e-mail as Spam. Conversely, the more Non-Spam words in an
e-mail, the greater potential for the program to not mark an e-mail as
Spam.
- To add to either the 'Spam words' or 'Non Spam
words' list, type phrases into the appropriate text box. The
program will consider each line in the text box as a phrase. Then
click on 'Save Settings'.
- For example, if you enter 'God is great' on one of the lines,
the program will search for every instance of 'God is great' in an
e-mail and not just for a single instance of any of those words. For
example, if an e-mail had 'God is awesome', the program will not
take that phrase into consideration because it does not exactly
match the phrase, 'God is great'.
- Execute SpamGuard Command
- SPAM: If you have a file with Spam e-mails, choose
'SPAM' from the drop down menu, enter the filename to the
right, and then click on 'Save Settings'. This will teach
SpamGuard which e-mails it should consider as Spam.
- GOOD: If you have a file with good e-mails, choose 'GOOD'
from the drop down menu, enter the filename to the right, and then
click on 'Save Settings'. This will teach SpamGuard which
e-mails it should consider as non-Spam.
- REMOVE: If SpamGuard is marking a good e-mail as Spam,
then create a file with that good e-mail, choose 'REMOVE'
from the drop down menu, enter the filename to the right, and then
click on 'Save Settings'. This will remove that e-mail from
the database of e-mails that SpamGuard considers to be Spam.
- Spam mails will be stored to file
- All e-mails the program marks as Spam will be stored in the file
listed here. You can also indicate directories. The directories and
filename must be made up of alpha characters, the underscore, or the
dash. No other special character can be used, e.g., the period. Once
you make the change, make sure to click on 'Save Settings'.
- Valid Examples:
- Invalid Examples:
- domain-mail/spam_mail.txt
- mail/spam.txt
- HINT: You can store e-mails that the program has
determined to be Spam to your -mail directory, and then create a
user in your mail manager that matches the name of the 'spam
mails' file. This will allow you to retrieve an e-mail that you
know is not Spam.
- To empty the contents of the file, click on the 'Empty'
link.
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