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How it works Userguide Overview Register Account Information Register Logs Register Whitelist Import adresses into the whitelist Register Run-log Register Response Text Help AboutDialog / Licensing Licensing When does it make sense to use Spam - reBounder What should be considered when using Spam - reBounder How it works Spam - reBounder is an AntiSpam Software based on a simple principle. Spam - reBounder accepts only messages from trusted senders, that is senders which are entered in a whitelist. In addition, Spam - reBounder accepts messages with a specific codeword in the subject line. What are the advantages of Spam - reBounder? Common AntiSpam Software filters the messages based on sender adresses and based on the content. Those tools do recognize a big part of spam messages. However, some are unrecognized and "slip" through into your mailbox. The reason that it is not possible to keep the blacklist (list with sender adresses and domain names of well-known spammers) up to date. Moreover, the used algorithms for recognizing spam messages based on the content often do mark valid messages as spam. Spam - reBounder has another approach. Our tool accepts only messages from trusted senders. All other messages are "rebounded" (now you know where the name comes from) to the sender. The rebounded messages to contain the information, that the message was not delivered, and that the sender shall confirm the message by sending the message again with a specific codeword in the subject line. Based on the codeword in the subject line, Spam - reBounder does accept the message. Top Userguide Overview  The main view of Spam - reBounder has 3 main parts:
Closing of Spam - reBounder is done by the menu entry File/Exit. The Menu entry Help/Content opens a helpscreen. In the "About" dialog, which is opened by the menu entry Help/About, the license key can be activated. Starting and stopping observation of the mailbox is done with the two toolbar buttons. There are several registers in the main dialog area. Those are explained in the following paragraphs. Top Register Account Information The fields have to following meaning
Changes in the settings have to be confirmed by pressing the "OK" button. They are not valid before. The "Reset" button undoes any changes made before pressing "OK". "Test" checks the last confirmed settings. The first tests tries to make a login on the pop3 server. The second tests checks if the the smtp server is available. Messages to the "Account Email" and the "Forward Email" adresses are sent in the third test. The user has to check himself if the testmessage was received by those accounts. In case you are making changes in the settings, while Spam - reBounder is monitoring the mailbox, you have to stop the monitoring and restart it again, in order to apply the new settings. Top Register Logs  In the register Log, you'll see the different log files of Spam - reBounder. AccecptedMails This log file contains the subject and the sender information of all messages, which are accepted and forwarded to the "Forward adress". Accepted messages are messages, which are sent by a trusted user or which do contain the codeword in the subject line. This log file can be cleared by selecting it and pressing the "Clear" button. NewWhiteListEntry All messages, which are accepted because of the codeword in the subject line are written into this log file. This log file can be cleared by selecting it and pressing the "Clear" button. ReturnedMails Rebounded messages are written in this log file. This log file can be cleared by selecting it and pressing the "Clear" button. DeletedMails  The first 50 lines of every rebounded message is logged in this log file. This log file CANNOT be deleted by pressing the "Clear" button. The content is deleted based on the setting "Delete Mail After". Messages which have to be cleared are deleted after closing the application. Top Register Whitelist  The whitelist can be maintained in ths register. In the textfield on the right side, new email adresses, server domains can be entered. Messages are accepted by Spam - reBounder, as soon as the sender email adress contains one of the entries in the whitelist. E.g., if you have the entry "aloba.ch" in the whitelist, all sender from this domain are accepted. Furthermore, if your colleague has several email adresses, but all starting with "john.smith", you simply add "john.smith" to your whitelist, and all adresses containing this string are accepted. You shouldn't forget to enter all sender adresses of any newsletters you are subscribed to. By the way, you can enter several email adresses at one time and add them to the whitelist by pressing the "Add" button. Top Import adresses into the whitelist From Outlook: 1. Open the contact view in Outlook 2. Adapt the contact view in the way, that only one column of email adresses is shown 3. Select all entries 4. Ctrl + c (copy the content into the clipboard) 5. Change to Spam - reBounder and open the whitelist register 6. select the textfield on the right side 7. Ctrl + v (paste the date) 8. clear any entries you dont want to add 9. press the „Add“ button 10. Change the contact view of Outlook to its previews state In the case you don't want to change the contact view of Outlook: 1. Select the desired entries in Outlook 2. Ctrl + c (copy the content into the clipboard) 3. Paste the data into Excel (or another spreadsheet application) by pressing Ctrl + v 4. Select the column with the email adresses 5. Ctrl + c (copy the content into the clipboard) 6. go on with steps 5 – 9 from above import CSV files 1. Open the CSV file in Excel (or import the file into another spreadsheet application) 2. go on with steps 4-6 from above (import from Outlook without changing the view) Top Register Run-log  You can see the result of testing the seetings, which can be started by pressing the "Test" button in the register Account. During monitoring of the mailbox, the activities of Spam - reBounder are logged in this register. Top Register Response Text  Unaccepted messages are rebounded by Spam - reBounder with the following message: << Spam - reBounder information: In the register, you have to possibility to add a personal text. E.g., in order to write a message in a different language. You can use the following parameters in your personal added text: {0} subject line of the message {1} sender adress {2} defined codeword The personal response text shown in the screenshot above would result in sending the following message: << Spam-reBounder information: It is not possible to delete the default messages send by Spam - reBounder. Top Help The Help is openend by selecting the menu entry "Help/Contents". Top AboutDialog / Licensing  The licencekey can be installed in the "About" dialog. Press the "Load License File" and select the licensefile in the opened dialog. Top Licensing Spam - reBounder is a Shaerware product, this means that you can evaluate the product for 15 days. During this time, you can use the complete functionality of Spam - reBounder. After the evaluation period, the settings, whitelist entries and the personal response text cannot be loaded are saved anymore and you have to enter them each time you start the application. These data will appear again, as soon as a licencekey is installed. After buying the product, the customer receives a licence file. This file can be installed in the "About" dialog. Once the license is activated the settings, whitelist entries and the personal response text will appear again. You find the license conditions with the following link License conditions for Spam - reBounder Top When does it make sense to use Spam - reBounder The use of Spam - reBounder makes sense for email accounts which are flooded by spam mails but cannot be abondende, since still important mails are received. Top What should be considered when using Spam - reBounder Spam - reBounder rebounds all messages from senders not entered in the whitelist and not containg the codeword in the subject line. Therfore it is important, that you have a complete whitelist. The main problem is to forget to enter adresses from newsletters and mailing lists which you are subscribed to. Most of them do have a valid adress, but messages send to such an account are often not processed. You should therefore keep an eye on the "Returned Mails" log file, especially during the first couple of days you are using Spam - reBounder |
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