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Configuration and usage instructions for
Spam Filter BETA 1:
After installation:
First of all, except the GUI configuration tool, using the spam filter is not currently done through a GUI. We are developing a GUI that will greatly simplify spam reporting. Despite that, you will find that you can achieve fast results even without a GUI (the more time passes, the less you need a GUI even if you had it), but you do need to be an experienced email user to use the current version of this product, or it is better that you wait for a future version of the product.
First of all, make sure that the email client that you use allows you to choose the email account via which you send a particular email message. If it doesn't allow you this, it would be too inconvenient to switch default accounts or default outgoing servers frequently. Once you've met this requirement, follow the instructions:
1. Do NOT start the application. Navigate to the program installation folder in the Windows start menu, and click "Configure". Fill in your regular email server and email account username and password details.
2. Start the application via the "Start Spam Filter" shortcut. You should see an affirmative message.
3. Configure your email application as follows:
4. Create an email account of the POP3 type, and the following credentials and settings:
* For the email username, enter "1" (without the quotes) and password "1" (likewise, without quotes). You may find the username strange and wonder why you don't enter your regular email username instead. But remember that you already entered your username -- in step 1 above, so the spam filter already knows about it.
* For the incoming email server, enter "127.0.0.1" (without quotes). (Some more technically experienced people may wonder why not enter "localhost" instead -- don't do it, enter "127.0.0.1", or things won't work correctly with our software.)
* For the sending / outgoing (SMTP) server, enter YOUR REGULAR sending / outgoing (SMTP) server, e.g. pop3.myisp.com.
5. Create a second email account like the above, but type "2" (without the quotes) instead of "1" and enter "127.0.0.1" for the outgoing server. You MUST NOT ENTER your REGULAR outgoing server here, since this second account will be used to send spam to the spam filter, in order to teach it, and you DO NOT want this spam to leave your computer. There are other reasons as well.
6. Account "1" will receive non-spam email, account "2" will receive spam email. But at first, there will be a lot of false positives. So if you find that spam has gone into the non-spam account or vice versa, do the following:
7. In order to teach the spam filter what is spam and what is not spam, (be sure to read point 8 below before doing anything) forward "As attachment" (JUST FORWARDING WON'T WORK, ONLY FORWARD AS ATTACHMENT) the wrongly classified letter to one of the two addresses:
s@127.0.0.1 if the letter is actually spam, or
n@127.0.0.1 if the letter is actually non-spam.
8. Be sure to send this "educational" email via account number 2 (the one which you created in point 5). DO NOT send via account 1, or your ISP might ban you for sending spam, or, if the letter is not spam, it will probably be delivered to the wrong destination or lost. ON THE OTHER HAND, when you do NOT teach the spam filter by sending to either s@127.0.0.1 or n@127.0.0.1, ALWAYS send via account number 1, because LIKEWISE your letter may not get delivered.
Again, we are developing a GUI that will greatly simplify the above process.
Do not hesitate to write to support(at)overselfresearch.com with any question you may have. You will receive a prompt response.