SpamSentinel for Lotus Notes Tutorial
SpamSentinel install program adds two new action buttons to your inbox, as well as a two new folders, Spam and News Letters. These buttons were designed to block Spam email before it takes up your time. They also allow you to add your own names and domains to your Spam with one click. You can also review and remove an email block to continue to receive email from that sender.
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SpamSentinel checks all of your Inbox mail messages against our server list on known Spam. It then moves it to a folder called "Spam".
Block - If you still find Spam in your Inbox, report it by clicking "Report Spam" from your Inbox. This will move the message to your "Spam" folder and notify us that new spam has been detected. You are now helping to fight spam!
Black List: Add Sender - This will move the message to your "Spam" folder and block future messages from this sender (e.g. makemoney@aol.com)
Black List: Add Domain - This will move the message to your "Spam" folder and block all future messages from this domain (e.g. save99.com)
Newletter List: Add Sender - This will automatically move all future emails from this sender to your News Letter folder.
This is preferable to reporting these as Spam, as they may be legitimate businesses to which you provided your email.
White List: Add Sender - This will always allow the email from the sender to stay in your inbox.
White List: Add Domain - This will always allow the email from the domainr to stay in your inbox.
SpamSentinel: Administration - This allows you to edit your personal lists - both blocked domains and blocked email senders, as well as you New Letter lists and White Lists.
SpamSentinel: About - This will show you the current version of the software, which you will need if you have questions or problems.
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How SpamSentinel for Lotus Notes works |
Think of Spam Protection like Virus Protection. We protect against Spam the same way you protect against viruses - we list known millions of Spam signatures on a WWW server farm called SpamNet. Using our SpamSentinel software and the associated Spam identification service, we can check which Inbox messages are listed on our WWW servers and remove them automatically!
Don't Bother typing in every name of every Spammer's domain, or writing them nasty letters. Our service tracks literally millions of Spam messages. If it finds one that matches a message that you have received, it puts it into a "Spam" folder.
Fight Back - One click is all it takes to Report Spam that you receive to our WWW Spam listing service, SpamNet. Once you do, you will block that Spam message to all other users of SpamSentinel for Lotus Notes. Currently, there are over 10,000,000 "SpamFighters" stopping Spam as soon as it is started, catching over 2 million Spam messages each day.
Privacy - No email is sent to the WWW server, just the Spam signature, a digest of the mail message, which is a 20 character "fingerprint" of the message which looks like:
52dceed1ee0933e7de4f4a516ad6d39d5688fcc9
All processing of the mail happens locally on your machine, and only to determine these signatures.
There are over 10,000,000 people (you are now one of them) who are reporting Spam every day.
Spam is the name for the annoying unsolicited commercial email (UCE) we receive that promises a livelier sex life, a high-paying work-at-home job, and a lower mortgage rate. The people that send this junk email make money when a very small fraction of the recipients respond to the advertisement and buy something. To reach the maximum number of people, and maximize their income, the spammers send the same message to millions of email boxes. Because the same spam message lands in everyone's box, only one person needs to report the message to SpamNet. So, each of your reported spam messages to SpamNet can instantly help thousands of other people in the SpamNet community.
When a spam message is reported by a Maysoft user, the message is sent to SpamNet, a central database that records the spam. When the other SpamNet users open their email, the software checks the new messages to see if it contains reported spam. If the system finds a spam message, Maysoft moves it to the Spam box. This process ensures that your Inbox remains clean of spam messages and that none of your email is lost or blocked.
The collaborative SpamNet community is composed of millions of individual users and Internet Service Providers who receive millions of email daily. Today, their collective reporting power captures over 99 percent of all spam sent out on the Internet, but that isn't enough. To ensure that each SpamNet reporter only reports UCE, each participant is ranked according to the number of good reports they have made. |
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