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.

Features

• Eliminate spam before it gets downloaded to your e-mail program
• Share one copy with up to 4 friends or co-workers
• Multi-faceted spam checks allow flexibility
• Potential spam is marked Suspect or Spam and can be routed to SUSPECT and SPAM folders by Outlook, Eudora, and possibly other e-mail software
• Customizable e-mail permission message and passcode

Quick Links

• E-mail settings: E-mail handling program, e-mail addresses, login name, POP3 server, e-mail program password, pass code
• E-mail Preferences: Spam and suspect text and handling, days to hold spam before deleting, add outgoing e-mail addresses to Friends List checkbox, secondary computer settings
• Software Options: Learn mode, delete from server, start on boot
• File Transfer: for technical support
• Importing from existing lists
• Edit Lists: Friends, OK Domain, Blocked E-mails, Bad Words, Good Words, Permission Message
• Referrals: earn additional service time or a percentage of sales

Getting Started

1. Download and install the software

2. Settings and Preferences

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.

• Outlook Express:
  • Edit Outlook Express settings to send messages marked as Spam to the Spam folder and messages marked as Suspect to the Suspect folder.
  • Edit Outlook Express settings to make localhost your POP3 server.
  • Optional: during setup, you can have My Spam Gone automatically add the names in your address book and/or your sent e-mails to your friends list.
  • Optional: start the My Spam Gone process to help identify messages sent by list servers.


• Eudora - My Spam Gone will be ready to protect your inbox. During the setup process, you will be asked if you want to "Check for list servers".

 
• Outlook - support is coming soon.

 
• Other Programs - support is coming soon.

3. Build and edit your lists

Importing from existing lists
Addresses can be automatically imported from your address book / contacts or sent list

into Eudora or Outlook Express during the setup process. If you don't import during setup, or if you are using another e-mail handling program, you may import using the Import Menu. Outlook Express sometime is set to add sent e-mail to the address book. Most users do not like this. To not put reply adderesses in address book, to go Tools | Options | Send and uncheck Automatically put people I reply to in my address book.

Editing your lists
All of the lists that help you customize My Spam Gone can be accessed from the Edit Menu.
 

4. Learn Mode

When you first setup My Spam Gone, you will be in "Learn Mode". This allows you to make sure your settings are as you want them, and to double check messages marked as spam before they are deleted. While in Learn Mode:
• none of your e-mail messages will be deleted
• no permission e-mail messages will be sent
• some e-mails that normally go to spam will go to suspect
When you are confident that My Spam Gone is properly managing your e-mail, you can turn it off. Go to Process | Software Options and uncheck Run in LEARN mode.

My Spam Gone Menus

Process 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 address
• Login name - your real name. Used to identify different e-mail accounts that may be on the same computer.
• POP3 server - the server that processes your e-mail.
• Password / Get password automatically from your e-mail program - if checked, your password will be copied from your e-mail program. If not checked, enter the password used by your e-mail program to retrieve your e-mail here.
• Pass Code - This is a word included in the permission e-mail to senders not yet in your friends list. The sender can put this word in the e-mail's subject to allow the message to be delivered to your inbox.
• Current - the current pass code
• Prior - when you choose a new current pass code, the prior word will appear here.
• Accept both - for a period of time after you choose a new pass code, you may want to accept both pass codes. Uncheck this box when you no longer want to accept the old pass code.

E-mail Preferences
Set up or edit preferences that apply to a single e-mail address.

• Spam text - word to mark spam e-mail, default is "**SPAM**".
This is added at the beginning of the subject. E-mail rules use this to route message to spam folder.
• Suspect text - word to mark suspect e-mail, default is "**SUSPECT**"
• Blocking preferences for spam and suspect e-mail:
     Block E-mail (e-mail does not get sent to your e-mail program)
     Block Images
     Block Attachments
• Set days before deleting blocked e-mail messages
• Add outgoing e-mail addresses to Friends List check box
• Secondary Computer check box

Software Options
Set up or edit preferences that apply to all e-mail addresses on this account.

• Run in LEARN mode
• Allow delete from server
• Start program on boot
• Validate users e-mail

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:

• have sent you more than one e-mail that is over a week old,
• are not already in your friends list, and
• have a valid "from address" and date

will be displayed. The e-mail addresses that are in the most folders will be at the top followed by the e-mail addresses with the most occurrences. Copy any desired addresses from this list to your friends list.

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.

Edit Menu

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:

1. If a specific e-mail address is on the Blocked E-mail list, the message is marked as spam.
   The e-mail goes to the incoming mail box if:
2. The specific e-mail is on the friends list.
3. The Pass Code is included in the subject.
4. Nothing in the e-mail looks like spam.

Otherwise, the e-mail goes to the Spam Suspect folder and the suspect code is added to the subject. The default suspect code is **SUSPECT**.

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

If you find that a word on your Good List is letting in more spam than valid messages, simply remove it from the list or lower its value. Unless the message looks like spam for another reason, it will go to your inbox. After editing, save and close.

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.

If you want to reach me, please resend the message and add "PassCode" to the subject and your message will be delivered. Thank you for your help as I try to reduce the spam e-mail that I am receiving.

You can change the message at any time.

Import Menu

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:

1. Open Sent e-mail dialog box.
2. Right mouse click on the Send Items toolbar.
3. Click on Customize Current View
4. Click on Fields
5. Add "To"

Referrals Menu

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

Choose how you want to receive credit for referring people who buy My Spam Gone:
• Earn 6 additional months of My Spam Gone protection; up to 3 years may be accumulated.
• Earn a percentage of the first year My Spam Gone fee through eSellerate.com.

How E-mail messages are handled

Order of Evaluation

1. Blocked List
2. Friends List
3. Check for passcode
4. Good Words List
5. OK Domains List
6. Check for other spam indicators

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.

Unpaid Version Limitations

1. All e-mail addresses must have My Spam Gone in the signature.
2. Cannot earn an additional six months of service for free by referring new paying customers to MySpamGone.

Owner Only Features

1. Can submit problems to technical support
2. Earn an additional six months of service for free by referring new paying customers to MySpamGone. A maximum of three years free service can be accumulated.
3. Ability to designate secondary computer(s).
4. Can omit My Spam Gone from the signature.

If you are receiving protection from My Spam Gone for free because you are setup under someone else's account, these features are not available to you. You can get your own My Spam Gone to add these features.