About SC SPAMScan

See SC's Account Management Page to Set-up SPAMScan by selecting one of the 3 SPAMScan options:

• Tag Only Option:  This is the default option and is already enabled on all email accounts.   Select the Tag Only option if you want to configure your desktop email program to move the suspected spam mail to a "junk-mail" folder. You will personally create the filtering rules that enable your email software to automatically move these tagged messages from your inbox to a separate folder.  This rule must be based on selecting all messages with the X-SC-SPAMScan-Spam header equal to X-SC-SPAMScan-Spam.

Please refer to the "Help" instructions provided with your email software for specific instructions on how to configure mail rules and filters. For additional information please see our Microsoft Outlook 2000 Rules Wizard Example. 

• Move to SPAM Folder Option: Select the Move to Spam Folder option have tagged SPAMScan Messages automatically moved to your Spam Box in your SC WebMail.   You will then be able to view and / or delete your tagged Spam mail using SC Web Mail.  Any messages incorrectly tagged as spam can be copied back into your "WebMail In Box" and downloaded to your desktop email program.  Please refer to our How do I access my SPAMScan tagged email using WebMail instructions. 
  

• Delete Option:  Select the Delete option if you want all messages tagged with the X-SC-SPAMScan header automatically deleted from our Mail Servers prior to your review.  If you find that SPAMScan is incorrectly marking some of your emails as spam, you will need to change your SPAMScan selected option to the default Tag Only mode and then configure your email program to perform the filtering.  

• Enter http://www.silcon.com/webmail in the "Location" line of Netscape Navigator or the "Address" line of Internet Explorer.
• Enter your user name in the SC Username entry box
• If your email address is johndoe@silcon.com, the username you will enter is johndoe (lower case)
• Enter your password in the Password entry box.
• Remember all passwords entries are case specific.
• You must click on the Log In button to complete the entry.

• After you have "logged in", you will be taken to your WebMail preview screen.

• Click on the INBOX or Mail links to be taken to your inbox.

• Click on the drop down arrow in your folders box and select spambox .  

• Click on GO and you will be taken to your spambox folder.

• Click on the Date, From, or Subject links to resort your inbox in any of these selected orders.
• Review these emails to confirm they are spam and can be deleted.

• To Select emails for deletion from your spambox.
  • Click on the indicator box for each message you wish to delete or click on the Select All button to automatically click the indicator boxes for all emails.
  • To De-select emails for deletion.
    • Click on the checked indicator box for each message you wish to de-select or click on the Select None button to de-select the indicator boxes for all emails.

  

• To Delete selected emails.
  • Click on the Delete Selected button.

• Deleted messages will remain in your folder until you Click on the Empty Trash Link, to Complete the deletion of messages from your INBOX.

• After reviewing your spambox, to return to your INBOX, click on the drop down arrow in your folders box and select INBOX .  Click on GO and you will be taken back to your INBOX.

• Header Analysis: Spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or into thinking you must have subscribed to their lists.  SPAMScan looks for these common tricks.

• Text analysis: Spam messages often have a characteristic style, including characteristic disclaimers and removal text.  SPAMScan searches for these tricks and applies special probability rules to determine what may or not be spam.

• Blacklists: SPAMScan will block email messages coming from hosts that are listed in common blacklist databases such as mail-abuse.org and ORDB.

• Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database at which point everyone else will automatically block it.

• Tag Only Option: If you have selected the SPAMScan Tag-Only option and have configured your email program to move the suspected spam mail to "junk-mail" folder, you will have to change the filtering rules you have established.  See our Mail Filter Example to show how you can create a rule that moves all messages with the X-SC-SPAMScan-Spam header to the junk-mail folder except where the sender is  xyznewseletter@news.com. Please refer to the "Help" instructions provided with your email software for specific instructions on how to configure mail rules and filters. 

• Move to SPAM Folder Option: If you have selected the SPAMScan Move to Spam Folder option then you will have to use SC's WebMail "Copy Function" to copy the email back from your WebMail Spam Box back into your "In Box".  You will then be able to access it from your desktop email program.

• Delete Option:  If you selected the SPAMScan Delete option then there is no way of changing the behavior of SPAMScan.  You will need to change your SPAMScan selected option to the default Tag Only mode and then configure your email program to perform the filtering.

Your copies of spam mail will remain in your spambox Folder until you have selected them for deletion and clicked on Empty Trash.

Show me an example of using the SPAMScan Tag Only Option with the Microsoft Outlook 2000 Rules Wizard:

• Open Microsoft Outlook

• Go to Tools

• Click on the Rules Wizard in the Tools Drop Down Menu.

• Click on New to create a Filtering Rule.

• Select Check messages when they arrive

• Click Next >

• Click on with specific words in the message header.

• Click on specific words

• Insert X-SC-SPAMScan-Spam in the Dialog Box entry line and Click OK.

• Click Next >

• Click on move it to the specified folder.

• Click on specified folder.

• Select an existing folder or create a new Folder in the Dialog Box entry line and Click OK.

  • Note: for this example we created a SPAMScan folder.

• Click Next >

• We added an Optional Exception by Clicking on except with specific words in the sender's address..

• We clicked on specific words.

• We entered monster.com in the Dialog Box entry line and Clicked OK.

  • Note: This is an example of optional entry that can be made or added to your rule if you find that SPAMScan is incorrectly tagging some of your email as Spam. This is an optional entry and can be bypassed by not selecting an Exception simply clicking on Next.

• Click Next >

• We entered X-SC-SPAMScan-Spam as the name in the Dialog Box entry line. You use your own personal rules name for this entry.

• Click Turn on this rule.

• Click on Finish.

• Click Run Now to immediately activate the Rule or -

• Click Ok to run the rule the next time you open Microsoft Outlook 2000.