THE CRASH DUMMY`S GUIDE TO SpamWeasel Free
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1. Usual Spam Subject Phrases and Usual Spam Message Phrases and adding to the list of phrases First go to any phrase list by clicking on the Patterns tab and then double clicking on the chosen phrase This displays the complete list which you can alter just as you would a shopping list You must use the wildcard character before and after each chosen word or phrase otherwise SpamWeasel will not see the wood for the trees If for example want to use promise as a spam identifier enter in the Usual Spam Message Phrases list promise in order for SpamWeasel to recognize it when occurring within a larger sentence like If not absolutely satisfied with this offer I promise to make a huge donation to the Incurably Optimistic Society To alter the priority level of a Rule governing a Pattern go to the Rules tab and right click on the Priority level assigned to the rule initially these are set at Normal and check the popup menu with a priority that you believe suits the importance of the Pattern To do this right click on the text stating the priority of the rule and click on the appropriate priority Each time you change the priority of a Rule you should also ensure the Action tab is set to handle the priority in an appropriate way To do this click on the Action tab and then on the dropdown menu Action for priority level to see if the action suits the new priority you ve2. contains the entry mailgate com the means literally any character SpamWeasel will allow as a friendly from address anyone with a mail account domain of mailgate com So for instance a mailbox called spamweasel mailgate com can send you a message If you don t want to be friends with us that s ok you can shut the door by cutting save amp delete amp pasting the mailgate com entry to the Unfriendly From Addresses list Thus we would become ot your friends Just don t then ask us for email support cos it probably won t reach you Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Using SpamWeasel 7 By the same token in the friendly from list will make anyone from anywhere your friend so don t do it unless you re a very sad person Enter just the individual addresses which you definitely want to receive mail from It helps if you update the friendly from list whenever you exchange addresses with someone obviously or you may not get their mail If you dont know an exact address you can start by using the part you do know plus and tighten up later Incidentally the is called a wild card which is a card every poker player wants but maybe you don t approve of poker so Il move on and talk to the nice folk over there Before I do I need to give you some tweaks to set up SpamWeasel to KILL spam which is the real aim Go to the Unfriendly From Addresses list and put in the addresses you
3. dont want mail from obviously For instance addresses of those pesky people who promise to stop mailing you if you only click on or reply to the unsubscribe remove or de list address they give Use the character freely as the unfriendlies will morph their address slightly just in order to confuse you For instance if they hide their from address and only give a huge URL with instructions to click on this to de register http www SpamULike net yeeuuch8475_yahdy_yah asp then try using the wildcard trick to prevent further mailings by blocking the From address SpamULike net If that doesn t work because for instance they re spamming you from one address but sending your de list request elsewhere you need to look into this further and maybe speak to a spam sophisticate Which ain t necessarily a bad thing to do and you ll learn a lot your grandmother never knew Then and this is important so pay attention turn OFF the next two Rules Rules are listed under the Rules tab and are turned on and off by left clicking on the green check symbol to the left of each Rule The turn offs are Spam if To or Cc address is not found in My Addresses and Pass if To or Cc address is found in My Addresses You ll know when they re turned off because youll see a red cross appear in place of the green tick or check Both these rules are intended only for network users and power users Turn them off or you ll run i
4. haven t printed it out amp are reading it on screen print it Otherwise you ll be juggling screens and guide like a one armed decorator papering a ceiling The software comes with standard settings but you need to personalize it the better to junk your spam That s all it does We do sometimes get mail from people who want to know why SpamWeasel doesn t stop Windows from crashing and also bring democracy to Cuba We re always polite to them But if you just want less spam here s how to Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Getting Started e 1 Getting Started with SpamWeasel Installing SpamWeasel To install SpamWeasel for the first time find the file named sweasx86 exe and double click on the file icon This displays the licence we re keen you read it because tho the product s free we still like to think it s ours Scroll down to the very end of the licence and click on Accept This starts the installer program which asks you the questions it needs answered to know where to install itself reasonably enough If Accept stays greyed out you haven t scrolled far enough down it d surprise you how many calls we get on that one SpamWeasel first asks where you want to install it leave this at our suggested setting and click Next Then it asks if you want Shortcuts and Autostart Again leave these settings as suggested and click on Next If this gets you dithering around like a learner at a busy
5. nino Ll More GDOULRULES MAP ROS a A E E 12 POERISTETING SpamWeas Ol A it A A A a A a dida ia 13 AVOIDING THE SPAMMERS reien roen tias 13 KEEPING MME Zombies BUTICUS Licks inde tivo ts tes ede geet abe boda edadetstadvcodlteds dust A ad dd datada daa 13 AULMOP E NOE A dada de died ado 14 Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Contents Getting Started Welcome to SpamWeasel Introduction SpamWeasel contains a full user s manual together with context sensitive help text In addition there are FAQ s on the Mailgate Web site to assist with installation But this guide is different It s for anyone with problems understanding software manuals and computerspeak And computers come to that If this doesn apply to you congratulations we already wrote a manual for you so go read it If you haven t already you ll want to download the program Go to the SpamWeasel s hide out at http www mailgate com products spamweas sw_feat asp and download it You ll find you can t invoke your browser simply by clicking on this URL so copy amp paste it into your browser s Address field instead Oh and before you do if you are one of the 30 million AOL users products like SpamWeasel will not work for you Why Because AOL opted out of the standard POP3 email protocol adopted by the other 500 million of us Internet users OK you ve got the program This guide helps you get SpamWeasel to analyse your incoming mail and bin spam If you
6. s called SHOUTING don t do it we have a rule for that too But if your friends shout a lot not to worry you ve already set the Friendly From Addresses to highest priority haven t you and where two rules of equal priority conflict the mail gets labelled as spam 8 passed through to your inbox Remember Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Using SpamWeasel 12 Likewise if you like getting spammy newsletters you might try going to the Rule Pass if Subject listed in Friendly Subjects which is already ticked with a Highest priority setting right Then enter the subject of the newsletter in the Pattern list matching the Rule exactly as it appears in the newsletter subject header If the To or From fields are blank or missing in a piece of unwanted mail it s usually a good indication you re looking at a piece of spam and there s a Rule for that too Or you could instead use the Friendly From Addresses and or Friendly Subjects Rule to let it through We haven t included one to look for a reference to Senate Bill 1618 which regulates spam but if you choose to put that as a phrase into the list found in Patterns and Usual Spam Subject Phrases don t forget to use the wildcard character at each end of the phrase you d probably be right nine times out of ten Registering SpamWeasel The nag screen appears whenever SpamWeasel operates until you register at the mai
7. you don t want to be a techie don t go there Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Using SpamWeasel 11 More about Rules and Priorities Rules are as we now know listed under the Rules tab and turned on and off by left clicking on the green check symbol to the left of the Rule The Rule itself is displayed by double clicking on it s description but it s written in our own script language which is indecipherable to me and anyway you cant change a Rule from within SpamWeasel Editing Rules is only for power users and beyond me entirely However as you will now have gathered many Rules refer to lists that you can easily edit within SpamWeasel For instance the Words tab allows you to access three pre existing lists by double clicking on the titles Adult Words Likely Spam Words and Usual Spam Subject Words A few specimen entries are already there but our polite adult vocabulary was quickly exhausted so you ll have to exercise your creativity on this one We ve created quite a lot of Rules for you already as you ve seen and some of them are quite specific like Check Mail Body GUARANTEE In Capitals meaning that if the word guarantee appears in capital letters in the body of the message you can be pretty sure it s spam I ve set this rule to the highest priority level and directed everything caught by it to the archives Similarly with BILLION MILLION and FREE In fact if the subject heading is all in upper case it
8. Mailgate Ltd THE CRASH DUMMY S GUIDE TO SpamWeasel Free Copyright 2001 Mailgate Ltd All rights reserved 4 Y e E Y Y_ i Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows NT and XP are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Copyright O 2002 Mailgate Ltd All rights reserved Written by R A Hall Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Contents ESA NT 1 WELCOME TO SPAMWEASE rocosa 1 UA AA AAA EE EAEE EE SAE EAA E T E E E EE E E A EOS L GETTING STARTED WITH SPAMW BASEL cccecseoeusecssseecarecssseseuecssuctaneudavecn costs sacieuscovenstevesaecosigeanseeasegess pegvnevensbent sedecnveststae 2 Ist llinge sS Pan We as el aa ea A A A ARG 2 CONFIGURING YOUR E MAIL CLIENT ieaiai eaa aaa os von aiea E aA aaee a Aaaa tus TEE Ea a TE a val 4 Changing your OP Sengsara otek boise sheaths ea a a a tia 4 LPNS LO WACH LOM e a a A a A RRE AA 6 USING SPAMWEASEE iiccccesisccssissoascecctscdesscsceisvasdscasesuucceectecondcscsdcaceseessobssseutesssdecdopssebessoscdsessasuuecsebecdestsedeeseseesedosseeseeyse 7 INITIAL CONFIGURATION Sinoie erae EE aa E E E tele uvbycawaeneso vns E sedas 7 Identifying DIM a OE EE E ET iE E iai Z Killing dE ATCRIVIAZ Spam sisiring a LE EAE E OAE EE T aE 9 FINESSING SPAMWEASED A NN 10 Using Rulesand Priorities iii cuucescveubeustescbevce spebusteseecuccsugeeuciestsvece dbstieds cussescLeubyeevacueesanseeddsansets 10 Oversized Messages E Repo oiiiicioninicn n inicien encarece
9. ass it to your email client Out of the box SpamWeasel s standard settings will allow all mail through but it will also label most of it as Spam unless you change some settings This may seem odd but it s just a starting point cos everyone has different ideas about what spam is So SpamWeasel starts by saying everything more or less zs spam until you tell it otherwise We could ve done it the other way around but the Internet is a tricky place amp full of junk so we leave it for you to tell SpamWeasel where and how big to make the doors in your mailroom Just in case you didn t know how context sensitive help works and I didn t for one click on the Configure option on the SpamWeasel menu and then left click once on the little character at the top right of the SpamWeasel screen Then position the mouse pointer which is now accompanied by a over any of the configurable data fields and left click again The appropriate help message will appear Click again and it disappears I describe two philosophies for using SpamWeasel here First the easy way then a slightly more sophisticated approach I prefer to combine both methods but it s best you discover what works for you and not be told how to even by do good dummies like me To get mail from friends passed to your inbox click on the Patterns tab and then double click on Friendly From Addresses You ll find that you already have some friends in there because it
10. e problem Our techies are usually busy so you wont always get top priority but they try to help you between making coffee recycling Internet jokes dissing each other cracking the boss s passwords Only joking Things to Watch For e Leave your original Password setting unchanged or your ISP will knock you off your mailbox account e A few email clients use different separators from the sign If you find nothing else works you may need to change this Go to the dropdown Separator Char on the Action tab in SpamWeasel 1 0 16 to change the separator to another character we recommend you use the question mark e You may need to re start your e mail client for the above changes to take effect Don t ask me why ask Uncle Bill e Some ISP s may require Secure Password Authentication for incoming POP mail such as MSN in N America anyway For more information on this and other settings go back to the relevant FAQ s at our Mailgate Web site Also as I ve mentioned a full manual which goes into The Meaning of Everything is included with the SpamWeasel and can be downloaded from the Mailgate Web site It s a real read written by techies for people with entire lives yet to get Best avoided Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Getting Started 6 Using SpamWeasel Initial Configuration Identifying Spam All things being well SpamWeasel is now able to collect your mail from your ISP and p
11. five way crossing stop get out climb into the back seat and wait for help By the way If you already have SpamWeasel and are updating it and before you ask yes it will keep your existing settings FIRST stop SpamWeasel by right clicking on the icon and selecting Stop SpamWeasel or Exit Then proceed as above and it will over install All you need do then is accept the licence as above do a re start see next paragraph and SpamWeasel will run as smoothly as before OK TIl assume that the installer wants you to click on Finish Do this And then re start your computer You probably think I mean by that hit the on off switch which is a reboot I don t Use the mouse to close down and re start the computer operating environment after first closing any active programs This distinction needed pointing out to me so if you knew that already you re ahead SpamWeasel runs automatically when you re start your computer provided you ve left the settings alone like I told you and it will place an icon in your system tray If you don t know where that is look at the bottom right corner of the screen next to the time display See it Now double click on the SpamWeasel icon he s the weasely little fellow staring out from the envelope If the program isn t yet registered it nags you to but can be ignored for now by clicking on Continue Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Getting Started e 2 Spa
12. ier about the Don t check massages bigger than option see Oversized Messages above You can now go on to explore the flexibility of SpamWeasel In time you could briefly attain the spam busters nirvana of 100 correct identification I got to about 98 before satisfying my curiosity as to how spam mail is constructed identified and blocked by SpamWeasel I also discovered that I need to update my definitions occasionally as spam changes character rather like mutant viruses If you ve read through this Guide without clicking through the software screens at the same time you may by now be slightly confused but hopefully still eager to start SpamWeasel is a fairly sophisticated utility spun off from a larger mail server product we also produce MailGate so wasn t originally intended for the novice So if you struggle a little it s really our fault not yours But once you start thinking about the effect of each setting and follow through the logic the ideas embodied in the program should click with you as it did with this particular computer crash dummy Author s Note The author takes full responsibility for all mis spellings and other infelicities and he spells words the English way mostly All other mistakes are also of his own making but then again what did you really expect from a crash dummy Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Using SpamWeasel 14
13. il client So ask your email program to go look for mail Send Receive and then view the results in the same logfile as before like you did after running the install programme Scroll down the logfile entries as before and the last lines at the bottom of the file should look something like this if you actually did process mail this entry will be a little higher up in the file 0x00000076 gt c OK SpamWeasel 0x00000076 lt c USER jdoe pop my_isp net 0x00000076 lt s 0K pop server ready 0x00000076 gt s USER jdoe 0x00000076 lt s 0K jdoe welcome 0x00000076 gt c OK jdoe welcome 0x00000076 lt c PASS lt secret gt 0x00000076 gt s PASS lt secret gt 0x00000076 lt s 0K mailbox is locked 0x00000076 gt c 0K You are looking for the characters c and s after the prompts lt and gt These indicate the c Client your E mail Client is talking to the s Server your ISP or the network server if you re using one If they are present all is well Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Getting Started e 5 If instead you see something like this ERR Permission denied go over the email client settings to make certain they re set exactly as described already IF they are absolutely correct read Things to Watch For below or go to the FAQ page at http www mailgate com support swfaq asp for some more hints on where your problem may lie If all else fails you can email support mailgate com with th
14. iles SpamWeasel spamfltr system sfr 0x000000bd spamfltr Parsing C Program Files SpamWeasel spamfltr userpost sfr If you see a similar entry to this SpamWeasel is happily installed and you can move on If instead an error looking something like this is displayed 0x000000e9 Unable to bind to port 110 error 10048 you can resolve it using the method shown in our FAQ at http www mailgate com support faq swfaq023 asp You now need to configure your email client program Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Getting Started e 3 Configuring your E mail Client Changing your POP Settings Your email client is the software that collects amp displays your email To configure your client to work through SpamWeasel you normally need make only two changes to your email client If you want more detail than you find here go to the Mailgate site and look up your email client in our FAQ section and follow the instructions at http www mailgate com support swfaq asp There are many different releases of each different type of email client we describe so you may need to exercise your judgement when entering the recommended changes Here s what to do First look under your Mail Account Settings to locate your POP Server address If necessary consult your email client manual Now write down your current Incoming POP Server details On a piece of paper for instance HERE Now change this setting to 127 0 0 1 Secondly locate your cur
15. lgate com site and the code you re given entered into the prompt box Do this by following the SpamWeasel links on our index page at www mailgate com Registering lets us send you interesting info about the SpamWeasel s life and times which you can always block using SpamWeasel and it lets you feel good about having this admirable little chap work for you unpaid Any personal information you give to us will be used only to deliver market and improve our products and our service to you and for no other reason Avoiding the Spammers Keeping the Zombies Buried Even if you do get the temptation to flame spammers don t Not politely not rudely not at all it only encourages them Treat them as you would a solicitous zombie Hide Your reply that is the From address on your reply is simply more meat for their smorgasbord Flaming the spammer only adds to the amount of spam in the universe And if the spammer eventually respects your de list request a reply still gives them a confirmed as valid address to sell on to other spam zombies So more spam Besides spammers often use a spoof or a one time address and send spam mail from an unattended mail box which does not accept incoming mail Their de list URL often takes you to a site whose only function is to you ve guessed it harvest validated email addresses Worse they may have hijacked an innocent party s mailbox so you only see the hijacked From address and ass
16. mweas Spamweas Spamweas Spamweas Spamweas Spamweas INS 1s 17 17 Hig Ee ub 29 29 29 29 29 47 42 42 42 42 42 52 Once you have completed the install routine I recommend you look at the SpamWeasel logfile to see if any errors are reported If so SpamWeasel isnt going to happen until it s put right Usually the error is simply due to another program hogging the same communications port SpamWeasel wants and can easily be resolved You already should have done a restart as described previously If not you should do it now to generate the logfile that tells you if it s working OK You ll need to use NotePad to view the logfile To invoke NotePad left click on the Windows Start button bottom left corner of the screen Hover over Programs and left click on Windows your version here eg 98 Explorer Double click on the Program Files folder on the SpamWeasel folder and finally on the log folder The SpamWeasel log you want is named SW followed by today s date displayed year month day and is at or near the end of the folder you ve just opened Open the logfile and scroll down to the last lines which should look something like this 0x000000bd SpamWeasel version 1 0 16 initializing 0x000000bd spamfltr Extension version 1 0 32 starting 0x000000bd spamfltr Parsing C Program Files SpamWeasel spamfltr userpre sfr 0x000000bd spamfltr Parsing C Program F
17. nto problems that only the sophisticate can resolve Now you are indeed ready to KILL spam Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Using SpamWeasel 8 Killing 8 Archiving Spam Click on the Action tab and uncheck the Allow through modifying Subject field which will prevent spam mail reaching your inbox Modifying Subject means SpamWeasel adds a word or phrase to the subject line to tell you it s spam you can choose the words yourself if it makes for interest On the same tab there s a checkbox option to Archive message to for each spam mail that s like a Go to Jail card If you want some excitement you can uncheck this box and delete it immediately that s like a blow away option so if you do this you can t bring it back just because you re really sorry You start by leaving checked the Allow through option in the Action screen This setting allows you to see in your inbox whether the mail you think is spam is marked in the Subject field as spam by SpamWeasel When that is happening consistently you can uncheck the Allow through box while leaving the Archive message to box checked This will allow SpamWeasel to route the marked mail directly to archive bypassing your inbox You need to repeat this for each priority setting that you use to identify spam see Using Rules and Priorities below You can then review the archives I describe how to below Leave the default folde
18. r setting alone unless you re sure you know what you re doing Provided you archive spam for say 7 days before auto deletion occurs the Tidy archive of messages older than option on the Action tab you can pan through periodically looking for any gold dust I go through mine every day To get into the Archive you right click on the SpamWeasel icon and click on Archive Viewer and then open SSpamWeasel Archives There the trapped spam is placed in neatly prioritised date ordered folders Mail is removed from your Archive file by left clicking and dragging the individual mail icon across and releasing it into the SpamWeasel Pending Queue in the left column from where it will go to your inbox It s the Get out of Jail Free card Once you ve initiated archiving from the Action tab all becomes clear It s worth trawling through your spam archives because occasionally good mail will get labelled as spam It s up to you to decide why and take the appropriate action to give it free passage in future A SpamWeasel will work OK if you set it up as I ve described and then leave it alone apart for updating the friendly froms and the unfriendly froms It s rather a limited use of it but good enough Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Using SpamWeasel 9 Finessing SpamWeasel Using Rules and Priorities If you want you can now go play with SpamWeasel by prioritising the Rules governing
19. rent POP Account Name Change this by adding an to the end of your account name and then type in right after the sign your Incoming POP Server details you ve just written them down Then check it the example below should help Then and only then click on OK which closes the window and saves your new settings Example Your onginal email client settings aka Mail Account Settings looked something like this before you changed them Incoming POP Server pop my_isp net Account Name jdoe Password pass_word After making the recommended changes your email client settings should look something like this Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Getting Started 4 spamweas spamweas spamweas spamweas spamweas spamweas spamweas spamweas spamweas spamweas 36 36 36 236 236 1303 1363 236 236 236 Incoming POP Server 127 0 0 1 Yes just so 127 0 0 1 Account Name jdoe pop my_isp net If this zs your name and ISP you get the prize Password pass_word Use your password this one s mine Now right click on the SpamWeasel icon select Configure and at the bottom of the next screen is a dropdown Logging menu Select Detailed with protocol You are now ready to run a test session to Send Receive mail It doesn t matter whether there zs any mail in your Inbox Outbox to run this test since we re only looking to find if SpamWeasel can communicate with the ema
20. set for the Rule Remember that if you change the action associated with a priority it changes the action for every rule with that priority For example Action for priority level Highest could be to uncheck both boxes which will delete all mail in the Highest category of spam For the next level High you could uncheck Allow through modifying subject and check Archive message to For Normal you might check the Allow through etc box but not the Archive message to box and put a message in the field associated with Allow through etc such as Normal Spam And so on for the lower priorities The spam message chosen should indicate the level of priority you have assigned to the rule that governs it If you then find lots of junk mail in your inbox marked with a Normal priority you can consider raising the priority of the rule governing the pattern involved so that SpamWeasel archives the mail directly Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Using SpamWeasel 10 Be aware that if you leave the Friendly From Addresses at it s standard setting of normal priority but raise a spam identifier rule to a higher priority this spam rule will over ride the lower Friendly From Addresses rule For instance if a friend s mail has features that are also typical of spam like and and youll need to ensure that you give as high or higher priority to the Friendly From Addresses Rule as yo
21. u do to the Usual Spam Message or Subject Phrases rule or their mail could be treated as spam The solution here is to give Friendly Froms a Highest priority so such mail will always be passed to your inbox The Undesirable attachment marks Rule the last in the list of Rules can be used for blocking certain known viruses that come as exe files or which have an identifiable file name such as LOVE LETTER FOR YOU TXT vbs or valentin scr Go to the Patterns tab and double click on the entry Undesirable Attachment Marks and you ll see a few instances already included which you can remove or add to at will But bear in mind that it all mail carrying attachments of the type listed will be treated as spam so best archive it for a week or so before allowing SpamWeasel to delete it in case you get valid mail incorporating a file with an undesirable attachment mark Oversized Messages amp Reporting In this context you need also to look at the Action tab The item Don t check messages bigger than is set at a low 30k on the basis that most spam is short in length This Action bypasses any Rules that otherwise would apply to the message even the Unfriendly From Rule So if spam mail is larger than 30k it will not be checked for spam content until you raise this setting For example if you set SpamWeasel to identify something like a newsletter as spam which could run to 100k in size if an html
22. ume it belong s to the spammer when it s actually being used to relay spam from his hidden address Crash Dummy s Guide to SpamWeasel Using SpamWeasel 13 We even get mail from the annoyed and the desperate because they ve seen the ubiquitous term mailgate somewhere in the header of tons of unwanted mail Mailgate is conventionally used by mail system administrators and ISP s to indicate a mail gateway and has nothing to do with its source domain We have a standard email reply that explains this too You can take a look at the header info that contains the routing information in any of your incoming mail by clicking on the correct tab next to Message and labelled Options in Outlook anyway But be aware that identifying the source of spam by analysing headers is a tricky subject that requires skill and persistence things often not being as they seem So instead of replying enter the spammer s address into the Unfriendly From Addresses or the Known Spammer From Addresses whichever floats your boat Go to the matching Rule and give it a Highest Priority in the settings Then click on the Action tab set the Priority level at Highest and uncheck the Allow through modifying Subject field and you ll prevent this mail reaching your inbox On the same tab there s a checkbox option to archive it or if unchecked to delete it immediately if you re that way inclined Remember what I said earl
23. version is included with the text version the mail could bypass the SpamWeasel and go straight through to your Inbox unchecked Why did we set the don t check limit so low Because otherwise your computer will check out all large mails few of which will prove to be spam Usually spam mail is short It s down to you to set the size limit of this bypass routine I ve put mine at 200k to hit the big newsletters but my experience aint necessarily yours The SpamWeasel can generate a regular report listing the mail it has labelled as spam indicating why it has done this Normally the report is sent to your inbox every time mail is collected from the ISP provided it has found spam These reports are useful feedback while you are setting up SpamWeasel but can become a distraction once it s running happily You can turn off the per collection report and optionally even disallow the daily report tho I don t recommend the latter as occasional feedback is better than none To turn off reporting uncheck the appropriate box in the lower part of the Action screen You should also know that after some debate we decided if two Rules of the same priority conflict one saying pass and the other archive the pass option would prevail and the mail appear in your inbox marked as spam not archived This and related topics are more fully addressed in the manual that accompanies this product It s a technical read so if
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