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To effectively intercept your junk mail, Junk Spy works between your email
program and your mail server. To make this possible, there are a few
settings you will need to change in Post Road Mailer so that it retrieves your
mail through Junk Spy. The purpose of this document is to walk you through
those changes.
Normally when you get your mail, Post Road Mailer contacts your mail server and asks it for the incoming mail.
However, when you are using Junk Spy, getting your mail needs to be done differently.
Junk Spy will get the mail from your mail server and then Post Road Mailer will get it from Junk Spy.
To do this, Junk Spy needs to know where to get the mail, so you will change Post Road Mailer to pass that information along too.
There are just two basic steps to get everything running smoothly. For each Post Road Mailer inbasket you'll:
All of the changes you'll make to your Post Road Mailer settings relate to retrieving email. There won't be any other changes to your Post Road Mailer configuration.
Note also that you can use Junk Spy with as many of your Post Road Mailer inbaskets as you want. If you have multiple inbaskets in Post Road Mailer, just make the changes for each inbasket that you want Junk Spy to monitor.
To begin, open the Account Settings for the Post Road Mailer account you intend to
use with Junk Spy.
Depending on which version of Post Road Mailer you are running, it will look something like this:
Look at the Server field.
If this contains:
Otherwise, now you are ready to make changes.
To begin,
The full dialog should now look like this:
Post Road Mailer and Junk Spy are now working together.
NOTE: If you ever need to get your mail without having it processed
by Junk Spy, just change the settings above back to what they were before you started.
There is no need to undo the other changes you'll be making below or to
"uninstall" Junk Spy.
Now you're ready to start Junk Spy by double clicking on the main program object in the Junk Spy folder.
The little z's on the right in the Junk Spy window shown above tell you that Junk Spy is snoozing, and that's how it is much of the time.
It will spring into action just as soon as your email program starts to retrieve your mail. As it is working, the image will change to reflect what's being done - connecting, looking for mail, analyzing a message, checking with external junk mail resources, marking a message as junk, and so on.
Your email program now gets your mail through Junk Spy, so they are both working at the same time.
How will you know what's junk?
That's easy - junk mail will be marked as "JunkEmail" in the subject of the message.
Rather than having it mixed in with your other mail, you can have Post Road Mailer put it all into its own folder if you would like.
In that case, you'll want to create a filter in Post Road Mailer as explained below.
Each piece of junk mail that Junk Spy detects is flagged with a special entry in the message header. By using your email program's filtering capability, you can control what happens to those junk messages. You might want to just delete them, for instance, or perhaps save them to a special folder.
Select the Post Road Mailer Features menu, then Filters. Double click on
the "Add a new message filter" icon.
The dialog should now look similar to this:
Now when Post Road Mailer retrieves mail, it will first pass through Junk Spy and its junk mail detection process.
Junk Spy includes options to either flag and deliver the junk mail it finds or to destroy it. Some email programs require one or the other to interact properly with Junk Spy. Post Road Mailer is one such program, and it requires that junk messages be delivered rather than destroyed.
Thus, you do not want to change the Action selection in Junk Spy's Detector Settings. It should always be set to "Flag and deliver message."
However, this doesn't mean you can't have junk mail eliminated for you automatically.
If you want the junk messages destroyed, you should select that option in your Post Road Mailer
filter, as described above.
While you don't want to change this setting, you might want to see where it is.
To do so,
It's time to start looking at Junk Spy's User's Guide.
You'll find out more about Junk Spy's settings and other usage information.
Right click on the white area in the Junk Spy window and you'll see the menu for Junk Spy. Information about all those menu options and Junk Spy features are explained in the User's Guide. You'll find the User's Guide is an option on Junk Spy's Help menu. You'll also find the User's Guide in the Documentation folder that's inside the Junk Spy folder put on your desktop when it was installed.
Because the guide is on-line, it is always just a few mouse clicks away. It's a good reference that you should find useful.
Introduction
Overview
Changing Settings in Post Road Mailer
CAUTION:
do not immediately proceed with the changes below.
Entries like these usually mean that an antivirus program is checking your mail in a way that will require special settings beyond those described here. See the
Antivirus Coexistance Information
page on the Junk Spy website and contact support if you need more information.
What to Expect
You'll see that Junk Spy takes up very little space on your desktop.Creating a Post Road Mailer Filter
X-Junkmail: Yes
A Restriction with Post Road Mailer
Take a Look at the User's Guide
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