Re: Help me with my e-mail & Spam Killer from MCAFEE
- From: "N. Miller" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 00:14:40 -0700
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:22:09 -0400, MELANIE RUIZ wrote:
> Hello I have McAfee 7.0 suite. I am trying to get my spamkiller to work and I don't know how to have my scanner read or connect with my e-mail.Does anyone have this program and can you walk me through?
> I don't understand the POP3 and what SERVERS I use and out going and in-coming mail.
SMTP servers are for email transfer. They have traditionally been used for
email pickup on port 25 outbound; but recently, with ISPs implementing
outbound port 25 blocking, email pickup has been moving to port 587 (per
RFC 2476), or, less often, port 465 (SMTPS). For your purpose, if you are
using your ISP SMTP servers, port 25 is most likely still the default.
POP3 servers are mailbox servers; the final destination for email delivery.
They hold the delivered email until you connect with an email client to
receive the email.
Your ISP should have a web page explaining which servers you use for
sending (SMTP), and receiving (POP3). I see your IP address belongs to
UUNet; presumably, your ISP is using UUNet for transport. If your email
address is anything to go by, you might need your University IT department
to provide you with the server names.
I don't scan email, either inbound, or outbound, through the email clients.
I let my mail server handle virus scans. While the AV provider's programs
work well enough, often enough, to be a selling point, when they don't
work, things become seriously broken. Even if you don't use your AV email
scanning, your AV memory resident on access scanner will still protect you.
I don't know how well the McAfee Spamkiller works. It could be subject to
similar concerns. Again, spam filtering happens on my mail server; although
a decent email client will also offer good filtering. Also, there are
better proxy spam filters than McAfee offers; two of the best are free:
K9: http://www.keir.net/k9.html
POPFile: http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
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Norman
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