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you are like most Internet users, your email address is currently on multiple
spam lists. You might be signing yourself up to receive spam
without knowing that, and spammers may simply have acquired your address by
random trial-and-error. How else can you explain why you are receiving mails from people
you’ve never heard of, regarding 'Unbelievable Business Opportunities', "Free PORN", "incredible ways to LOOK YOUNGER AND
LOOSE WEIGHT IN 3 WEEKS!!!", and stories from people you
do not know about "STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL REQUESTS!!!" for "URGENT ASSISTANCE!!!". |
Choose one of the icons from the list to configure the
filter. You can choose one of the following levels:
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Very high : All messages will be moved to Recycle-Bin except those from your friends. |
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High : Filter threshold will be set to a low value, so that plenty of spam mails will be
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Normal : This is the default value. Many spam mails will be moved to Recycle-Bin. |
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Low : Filter threshold will be set to a high value - messages will only be moved
to Recycle-Bin when it's obvious they're spam. |
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Very low : No messages will
be moved to Recycle-Bin except those from blocked senders. |
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Local server - If
port 110 is already occupied by another program, you can choose another
one here. Please change the port in your email clients too, using the "Clients
configuration" wizard.
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Timeout - If SpamRemover doesn't receive anything from the
server for a certain time, a window will show up where you will be asked if you
want to abort connection or wait a little more. Please enter the time (in
seconds) SpamRemover should wait. If you don't want to see this window, enable
"Always abort on timeout". |
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Firewall settings - If you're using a firewall, you have to
adjust it to grant full Internet access to SpamRemover. If you cannot change the
firewall's settings for any reason, activate the option "Bypass connected state
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Logging - The communication between your mail client and
SpamRemover respectively SpamRemover and the server will be logged to these
files: client.log and server.log. You can find these files in the program's
directory (most likely C:\Program Files\ProductsFoundry\SpamRemover). Their size
is limited to ensure that your hard drive won't be used too much. You can
specify the file names and their maximum size here. |
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Launch SpamRemover at Windows startup - Activate this option if you
want SpamRemover to launch automatically when starting Windows. |
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Never download messages twice - SpamRemover can memorize
which messages have been downloaded already. This is useful if your e-mail
client is set up to leave messages on the server (e.g. when sharing an e-mail
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Recycle bin - Don't keep messages more than [x] days - Here
you can set the number of days spam mesages that should be stored in the Recycle-Bin.
After this period, the spam mesages will be exterminated. |
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Backup your settings
- You can save all your settings in a backup file. Use it if you have to
re-install SpamRemover on another computer or after a system crash. Click on
"Export..." and a dialog window will appear where you can choose filename and
location of the backup file.
- When clicking on "Import...", a dialog appears where you must choose the file
that should be imported, and check the data that should be imported out of that
file. You can restore every information that has been saved to a backup file
with the "Export..." function of SpamRemover. |
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Spam Word Filter - The Word Filter uses a list of Spam Words,
which can be configured here. Every Spam Word has a certain probability. The
values of all spam words found in one e-mail will be added together. By default
the sum of these values must exceed 100% in order to recognize a mail as spam.
You can affect this value by altering the filter's aggressiveness. |
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Ignore HTML tags - If this option is checked, SpamRemover will
skip HTML code while searching a message for spam words. |
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Learning Filter - The Learning Filter must be "trained" to
work reliably. You can configure the Training Area here. If you enable the
options "Automatically learn from messages from my friends" and/or
"Automatically learn from messages from blocked senders", you won't need to mark
messages from these senders in the Training Area manually. |
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SpamRemover manages a list of blocked senders.
Emails from these senders will always be deleted.
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Add sender - Click the "New..." button to add a new sender. A
window appears where you can enter an arbitrary sender name. Furthermore you can
enter the email address of your foe. It can contains wildcards (* and ?). |
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Edit entry - Click on the sender's entry and choose "Edit..."
to alter its settings. |
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Delete entry - If you want to delete an entry from the list,
click on it and choose "Delete...". |
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Import adressbook - When you click on "Import...", you can
choose if you want to import the blocked senders from OutlookŪ Express or from a
textfile. Textfiles you can import often have the extension .csv and can be
generated with most e-mail programs. |
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SpamRemover's Word Filter examines every incoming email. It uses a list of
well-known words, that appear in spam mails very often: the so-called Spam
Words. Every one of these words has a certain probability. By default the sum of
the probabilities of all spam words found in one mail must exceed 100% in order
to recognize this mail as spam. You can affect this value by altering the
filter's aggressiveness. Furthermore you can add your own spam words or change
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Furthermore you can see spam
mails per day. SpamRemover also calculates the
average spam amount per day. |
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Show status window while receiving messages - The status window
appears during reception of emails. It shows information about downloaded
messages. You can suppress permanently the status window by disabling this
option. |
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Show amount of deleted messages for [x] seconds - After
SpamRemover has received all messages it shows how many mails have been moved to
its Recycle Bin. You can see a small number on the icon in the tray area.
Specify here how long SpamRemover shows this number. If you want to disable this
feature, change the duration to zero. |
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Double click on the tray icon opens ... - Please choose what it
happens when you double-click on the program icon in the tray area. |
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Don't keep messages more than [x] days - Limit the amount of saved
messages by specifying how much days they should stay in the Training Area. |
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Limit SpamRemover's memory to [x] KB - The Learning Filter
creates a list of words that often occur in spam- or non-spam-messages. This
list will be saved in a file. You can limit the size of this file to a certain
amount of kilobytes. |
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Right-click on SpamRemover's program icon in the tray area to open the SpamRemover's
main menu. |
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