Using AntiSpam Personal
Protecting your first account
The first time you run AntiSpam the Account Manager will start automatically.
You will be presented with the AntiSpam Configure Account wizard that will guide
you through the setup process.
- From Outlook Express, verify you can send and receive email from your account you intend to protect (if you have been having issues, I recommend protecting one account at a time to limit any confusion).
- Close your email program.
- From AntiSpam use the Account Manager to add protection to the account you verified worked in the previous step.
It using Outlook or Outlook Express, the existing accounts should show up in the
list. Simply pick the account to protect. If using another email
program you will need to choose the option "Other()" and manually enter in your
account settings.
- If this account has not been activated by your license you will be prompted to activate it. Go ahead and follow through the wizard so that your account gets activated.
- Regardless of any license issues, AntiSpam will send a welcome email to your inbox. You must reply to that email to complete the configuration process. Once you reply, you will receive an email from AntiSpam letting you know that your account is now protected from SPAM.
- If there is a license issue or if you have not already registered your license you will notice a "Protection Disabled" message in the top left part of the main AntiSpam screen, along with a link to the utility that should help fix the problem. If you do not have a registered license installed you will either need an activation code, or you can can choose to run a 14-day trial.
After setting up the account you will receive an email from AntiSpam. You must
respond to that email (as per the email's instructions) in order to finish setting
up the AntiSpam protection. You will then receive a notification email from
AntiSpam that your account has indeed been protected. Feel free to delete both
emails when finished.
Customizing challenge email
To customize the email that is sent out to verify email addresses use the Edit
Challenge Email button on the Account Manager screen.
Emails to be processed notifications
AntiSpam stops all unsolicited email, but it will also stop legitimate emails
like list server emails and receipts from on-line stores unless you tell it
otherwise. To this end, AntiSpam has an elaborate notification system to
help notify you when emails from unfamiliar email addresses arrive. Most
of the time, you can probably ignore these notifications, it is only when you
are expecting to get an email (such as after you just ordered something on-line)
that you should need to pay any attention.
As AntiSpam runs it will inform you when new emails arrive from an unfamiliar
email address. The Newly arrived email window will pop-up in the lower
right of your screen and the AntiSpam icon in your task bar will turn green.
Email that arrives from an unfamiliar email address will stay in this
unprocessed state for 10 minutes before AntiSpam sends a verification email to
the sender.
Emails awaiting verification window
When a verification email is sent out, the original email is sent to this
awaiting verification window for up to 72 hours. If no reply from the
sender is received by that time, the email will be deleted as SPAM. You
can view the emails in this window and release them to your inbox manually if
you wish.
Direct to inbox rules
Both the Newly arrived email pop-up and
the Awaiting verification window allow you to create a rule based on a selected
email so that similar emails will always go to your inbox unchallenged by
AntiSpam in the future. You can use the Direct
To Inbox rule manager to manage these rules.
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