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Here we'll describe the initial steps you should follow to start working with
G-Lock SpamCombat.
IMPORTANT! Run SpamCombat
BEFORE you receive the emails with your email client. After SpamCombat deletes
all unwanted emails from the server, you can safely run your email client to
receive only good emails.
To get SpamCombat working, you need to setup an account, from which you will
retrieve incoming emails. This account is already created in the SpamCombat
Accounts section. You only need to fill in the required fields. To do this,
click the right mouse button on the default account in the Accounts section and
select Edit Account:
On Edit Account screen enter a display name for your account (any name you want), your
POP3 server name, POP3 server port (usually 110), your account name and
password. You can pick up the server name, account name and password from the
settings in your regular email client. Look for something like Incoming Mail
Server, POP3 Mail Server, or, simply, POP3 Server. If you are not able to find
this information then you’ll
need to ask your Internet Server Provider (ISP).
If you deal with an IMAP account, check IMAP Account checkbox, enter
your IMAP server name, IMAP server port (usually 143), account name and
password.
After you filled in the required fields, click Test button to test the
account. If the test is OK, click OK to save the account settings.
Make sure that the checkbox next to your account in the Accounts section is
checked and click 
Start button on the Toolbar to start
retrieving messages.
You will see your incoming emails and their details on the screen.
The icons legend:
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email is resolved as
OK
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email is resolved as
Spam
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email is flagged as unknown. Click either
Mark as Spam or Mark as Good button to categorize the
email
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email is not resolved because of a bad
Internet connection (message header is empty). Click Start button to
reprocess such emails
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email has not enough significant words to
be processed by the Bayesian filter. Add such emails either to Whitelist,
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Training SpamCombat
To get the best performance of the program, you should train SpamCombat to
classify your emails to spam and good. When the emails are retrieved, check
whether they are properly categorized, i.e. whether
emails
are really spam and
emails
are really clean. If not, you should re-classify them by yourself. To do this,
use 
Mark Message as Spam and
Mark Message as Clean buttons on the
Message Control Toolbar under the grid. The program learns from its mistakes and
the next time the emails will be marked properly. Also categorize by yourself
the emails with
icon.
The Bayesian filter learns from these emails as well.
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ATTENTION!
The training affects only the
Bayesian filter. If an email was
wrongly classified as spam or good by any other filter such as
Blacklist, Whitelist, HTML Validator or DNSBL, there is no sense to
re-classify this email. In this case, just edit or de-activate the
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The emails flagged by
icon should
be either whitelisted, or blacklisted. A green question mark
means that
the email could not be resolved as good or spam because of a glitch with the
Internet connection. You should just re-process such messages some time later.
SpamCombat deletes from the server only those emails, which have the checkbox in
the Status checked. Make sure the checkboxes are checked for all spam messages.
Then click 
Delete on the Toolbar to delete spam
emails from the server.
Now you can safely run your email client to pull down the messages you really
want to read. 
Useful Tip: To speed up your work with the
messages, G-Lock SpamCombat allows you assign the hot keys to the common
operations. To configure the hot keys, click on the Settings button on
the toolbar, click on the Hot Keys tab and enter the desired hot keys
combinations. For example, you can assign F8 to Mark Message as SPAM
function and F9 to Mark Message as Clean. Click OK to save the hot keys.
Next time you can simply use two keys on your keyboard when marking the messages
as spam and good.
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