with Mozilla

Updated December 2003

Table of Contents
  1. Obtaining the Most Current Version of This Guide
  2. Introduction
  3. Overview
  4. Changing Settings in Mozilla
  5. What to Expect
  6. Creating a Filter in Mozilla
  7. A Restriction with Mozilla
  8. Take a Look at the User's Guide


Obtaining the Most Current Version of This Guide

This guide for Junk Spy was current when issued. But as programs are updated, sometimes changes are necessary in the supporting documentation. The most current version of this guide is always available to you on the Junk Spy website where you can view and/or download it.


Introduction

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 Mozilla so that it retrieves your mail through Junk Spy. The purpose of this document is to walk you through those changes.


Overview

Normally when you get your mail, Mozilla 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 Mozilla will get it from Junk Spy. To do this, Junk Spy needs to know where to get the mail, so you will change Mozilla to pass that information along too.

There are just two basic steps to get everything running smoothly. For each Mozilla Mail account, you'll:

All of the changes you'll make to your Mozilla settings relate to retrieving email. There won't be any other changes to your Mozilla configuration.

Note also that you can use Junk Spy with as many of your Mozilla accounts as you want. If you have multiple accounts in Mozilla, just make the changes for each account that you want Junk Spy to monitor.


Changing Settings in Mozilla

From the Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups viewer, start by selecting the Edit menu, then Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings.

CAUTIONS:

First, look at the Server Type. If this does not say "POP Mail Server", you may not be able to use Junk Spy with this account. Contact support for more information.

Second, look at the Server Name field. If you are installing Junk Spy for the first time and this contains:

  • localhost
  • 127.0.0.1
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. (Note: If this is not a new installation of Junk Spy, you may already have changed this field to "localhost" specifically for use with Junk Spy and, therefore, it does not indicate a possible conflict.)

Otherwise, now you are ready to make changes.

To begin,

Mozilla 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.


What to Expect

You're now ready to start Junk Spy. Double click on the main program object in the Junk Spy folder.


You'll see that Junk Spy takes up very little space on your desktop.

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 Mozilla put it all into its own folder if you would like. In that case, you'll want to create a filter in Mozilla as explained below.


Creating a Mozilla Message Filter

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.

You can create your filter two different ways. One way filters on the flag Junk Spy always adds to the headers of any junk message. The other filters on the keyword that Junk Spy can optionally add to the subject of any junk message. Either way, you get the same result.

Regardless of which filter option you choose, now when Mozilla retrieves mail, it will first pass through Junk Spy and its junk mail detection process. Any mail marked as junk will then end up in your Junk Mail folder if you selected that action.


A Restriction with Mozilla

Junk Spy marks the subject field of messages by default. So, if you followed the second option for filtering, you must not change that setting in Junk Spy. It should always be selected.

While you don't want to change this setting, you might want to see where it is. To do so,


Take a Look at the User's Guide

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.


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