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I. How MailMate works
MailMate runs between your mail server and the e-mail client software, such as Outlook and Foxmail). How MailMate works is 1. It will automatically check and receive new emails at intervals, and store the spam and normal emails in different virtual folders according to the built-in filter rules, your email client will not receive emails from the mail server, but directly receive normal filtered emails from the MailMate. This is a significant difference between it and other junk filtering tools.
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Figure 1
Ii. MailMate Configuration Wizard
1. when the software is running for the first time, the "Configuration Wizard" will pop up. The first two dialog boxes are some features of MailMate. You can click "Next" to skip them, then, the interface for setting up multiple email accounts is displayed.
Click the "Import email account" button to directly import the email account in Outlook, Outlook Express, or Eudora. However, if you are using Foxmail or other email client tools, you must click "manually enter email account" and create an email account manually in the pop-up "email account" dialog box.
2. Click "Next" to open the dialog box shown in 2. You can configure common email receiving programs here. If you are using Foxmail, you can only manually configure it.
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Figure 2
3. Click "Next". The dialog box shown in 3 is displayed. To prevent normal emails from being deleted by mistake, you need to create a friend's email address list here, which is equivalent to a "White List"). The email addresses in the address list will not be filtered under any circumstances. You only need to click the "Import friend email address" button to automatically import the address book of Outlook, OE, or Eudora. For foxmail, you can export the address book to the address book in the format of .wab;.csv;.txt.), and then import MailMate.
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Figure 3
Click Finish to close the Configuration Wizard. If the mail client software you use is Outlook, Outlook Express, or Eudora, you can use it with MailMate without any further settings.
3. manually configure the mail client
Taking Foxmail 4.2 as an example, select "option> current account attribute> email server" to open the "account attribute" dialog box and change "receiving email server" to "127.0.0.1 ", change "POP3 mailbox account" from user name to the mail address of the corresponding account, for example, for the limei@tom.com mailbox, the original "POP3 mailbox account" is "limei ", now you want to change to "limei@tom.com ".
4. Adjust filtering rules
You can use the pre-configured spam filter rules of MailMate to deal with 97% of spam mails. However, there are always a few hundred passwords, and the fish that leak the Internet are also indispensable. If you find the spam emails that are not properly filtered, after selecting the email, click Add to blacklist to add the email address to the blacklist. Figure 4). In the future, MailMate will automatically reject any emails from the email address.
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Figure 4
In addition to using the "Blacklist", you can also set more detailed filter rules. For example, we want to add such a rule, all emails with "good stuff" in the topic are treated as spam. In the virtual folder on the left, select "spam rules> Email Subject" and click "add" to open the "topic rules" dialog box and set "conditions" to "include ", enter the filter keyword "Good Stuff" and click "OK.
