[pmmail-list] help with 0spam

[Ralph Cohen]

Hi Marty,

I took a quick look at the 0spam website and the way it appears to work
is that instead of retrieving email directly from your POP mail
account, you get it instead through an 0spam POPaccount.  When you go
to retrieve email from your 0spam account, 0spam logs on to your "real"
POP account, downloads all the emails, diverts any that haven't been
entered into your whitelist into a Junkmail folder and passes the rest
on to you.  You have up to 14 days to review any messages diverted to
the Junkmail folder before they are automatically deleted.  So, the
reason you need to provide 0spam with your current POP mail address and
login info is for 0spam to be able to retrieve your email from that POP
account.  The reason you need to change your POP address in PMMail to
the new one provided by 0spam, is so you can get the filtered email
from the POP account set up for you by 0spam.

The IP 127.0.0.1 is a non-routable internal address that refers to your
own computer.  Unless you are running your own mail server, I'm not
sure why you would be using that address.  Perhaps someone else here
can help with that.  While a POP mail address can be in the form of an
IP address, it is often in the form of 'pop.aol.com' or
'mail.home.net'.

Setting up a whitelist filter is very easy to do with PMMail and can
give you much more control over your accounts.  Let us know if you need
some help.

Ralph Cohen


On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:03:28 -0800, Marty Rimpau wrote:

>Hi list, I need help, I am using pm mail version 2717, and according
>the tutorial at
>http://www.0spam.com
>it wants you to create an account in your email program, or, according
>to the 0spam people, it won't be effective for deleting spam, so, my
>problem is, what does it do, does it log in to your 0spam account, and
>download your mail, or what?  For my regular account, I have to use the
>pop server 127.0.0.1, or I can't receive email, and with this 0spam
>account, I don't want to send mail, just receive mail, and it's asking
>for email, and such, but I don't want all that, and real name, and all
>this, so, I've configured the account, by naming the pop server
>0spam.com, and I've re-defined the port to 1111, like they said, but
>when I open up my 0 spam account to check messages, it says sending
>user command, over and over again, and for each email account you set
>up, you provide the pop server and the user name and pass code for that
>account, but do I need to use 127.0.0.1 for this account as well, or
>what do I need to do?  The person's name at support with 0spam.com is
>Jeff Anderson, but he said to use 0spam.com but pm mail won't receive
>mail with that pop server, so what do I do?  It says to create a 0spam
>account in your email program, or else, 0spam will be ineffective in
>blocking spam, but I'm stumped, because I thought that a service like
>0spam would take care of accounts like this itself, without you having
>to create an email account in your email program.  Would somebody
>knowledgable please read the tutorial, and maybe point me in the right
>direction?  Thanks in advance for helping.  
>
>
>Marty
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