
My Spam Gone was developed for people who cannot afford to lose valid e-mail messages. Most businesses would prefer to receive a few spam messages, than to throw away any good e-mail from customers.
Click on Process | E-mail Settings | New to bring up a dialog box to enter the necessary settings for each e-mail. Select your e-mail program.
Importing from existing lists
Addresses can be automatically imported from your address book / contacts
or sent list
Editing your lists
All of the lists that help you customize My Spam Gone can be accessed
from the Edit Menu.
Run Anti-Spam
Start My Spam Gone by (1) clicking on Process | Run Anti-Spam or
(2) have the program start every time your computer boots up by clicking
on Process | Software Options | Start Program on Boot.
Stop Anti-Spam
Minimize to icon
Set My Spam Gone to run in the background with only an icon in the system
tray (lower right corner).
E-mail Settings
Set your initial settings or edit previous settings. Pass code is set here.
Once you have selected your e-mail program, many of these fields will be
filled in automatically based on the settings from your e-mail program.
E-mail Preferences
Set up or edit preferences that apply to a single e-mail address.
Software Options
Set up or edit preferences that apply to all e-mail addresses on this account.
Check for List Servers
This option creates a list of the e-mail in your folders to make it easier
to identify the e-mail addresses of messages sent by list servers. You can
then add the addresses you want to your friends list. All of your e-mail
folders, except Trash, Outgoing, Spam and Suspect, will be searched. Messages
from senders who:
View / Get Blocked E-mail
Search for a specific e-mail message that was blocked by entering an e-mail
address or e-mail ID.
File Transfer
Transfer Technical Support Information - makes it easier for Pageville to
offer technical support. This function sends us data about your settings
so we can troubleshoot problems.
Friends
Click on Edit | Friends | Order (you choose the order to display
addresses).
This list contains e-mail addresses from which you always want the messages
to reach your inbox. Each address is listed on a separate line.
Each line can have words describing the e-mail source at the end. Source
words are automatically added for the following:
ADDRESS BOOK
ADDRESS BOOK ***PREVIOUSLY***
OUT BOX
OUT BOX ***PREVIOUSLY***
The PREVIOUSLY denotes that the e-mail was previously in the address book
or outgoing mail box.
You can edit this file to add or delete addresses. You can add your own
source words to identify e-mail addresses.
OK Domain List
Click on Edit | OK Domain List
Domains should be listed on separate lines like:
@osu.edu
@propay.com
@visualvision.com
After editing, save and close.
E-mail from addresses that are in the OK domain list are processed as follows:
Blocked E-mail
Click on Edit | Blocked E-mail
This opens a list in Notepad that you can edit. These e-mail addresses or
domains will always be marked spam, and sent to the spam folder. List each
e-mail that you want to block on a separate line. Enter an asterisk (*)
as the name part of an e-mail address to block an entire domain. Example:
*@spammers.com. After editing the list, save the file and close.
The same Blocked E-mail list applies to all e-mail accounts on the computer.
Outlook Express provides another way to block messages from e-mail addresses. Just select an e-mail and then click on Message | Block Sender. These addresses will also be added to your My Spam Gone Blocked list.
Bad Words
Click on Edit | Bad Word List
This is the "bad words" file. If a word in this list is found in an e-mail's
subject or body, the e-mail is marked as spam. A standard list is provided
(filename). You may add your own words here. After editing, save and close.
Good Words
Click on Edit | Good Word List
Adding words to this file can significantly decrease the number of permission
e-mails you send out. Incoming e-mail messages containing words on your
Good List will be assigned a value. If the value is 10 or greater, the e-mail
will go to your inbox. If the value is less than 10, and the message has
other indications that it is spam, a permission e-mail will be sent.
The words on your Good List can be assigned a weighted value. The default value for each word is 5. You can assign values from 1 to 10 for each word on your list. For example: if you sell sailboats, words on your good list might include:
| sailboat | 9 |
| sail | 8 |
| boat | 8 |
| rudder | 5 |
| mast | 5 |
Permission Message
Click on Edit | Permission Message
The permission message is sent to people who are not on your friends list,
and whose messages do not look like spam. The default message is:
Your e-mail message was not delivered because of the following:
1. You are not registered in my e-mail list.
2. The message appears as spam--most likely because it contains graphics or links.
You can change the message at any time.
Address book or contacts
Address Book/Contact addresses can be automatically imported into Outlook
Express and Eudora. This feature can be on or off at any time. Go to Process
| E-mail Preferences and Check or Uncheck Add address book addresses
to friends list. Importing occurs when the (1) when the program is
started, (2) when the feature is turned on and (3) once per house. For other
e-mail programs, click on Import | Address Book/Contacts. E-mail
addresses imported into to the Friends list will have the source ** Address
Book **.
Outgoing / Sent e-mail
Sent e-mail addresses can be automatically imported into Eudora during setup.
With any e-mail program, you can click on Import | Sent E-mail.
These addresses will have the source ** Sent E-mail ** when imported into
the Friends list.
Sent E-mails Display
Outlook may display a "From" column and not a "To" column in the Sent folder.
To see the "To" column:
Submit E-mails
Add e-mail addresses to your list of referrals. Earn additional time or
income when someone on your list buys My Spam Gone. E-mail addresses on
your friends list will be automatically be uploaded to your referral list,
unless they are already on someone else's list.
Payment Method
Order of Evaluation
Spam Factors
Various factors are evaluated to determine whether an incoming message should
be considered to be spam. Some of the main factors that indicate spam are
bad or missing from e-mail addresses, invalid dates, phishing indicators,
or HTML code in the message.