From Heinz Tschabitscher,
Your Guide to Email.
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Outlook Express is a nice email program, but it lacks proper spam protection.

POPFile is a fabulous anti-spam tool, but not an email program.

Put the two together, and the combination is hard to beat (by spammers, at least). Here's how to use POPFile's great spam protection with Outlook Express.

Configure Outlook Express to Work with POPFile

To set up Outlook Express to receive incoming mail through POPFile:

• Select Tools | Accounts from the menu in Outlook Express.
• Go to the Mail tab.
• Highlight your email account.
• Click Properties.
• Go to the Servers tab.
• Double-click in the Incoming mail (POP3): field so that its content is highlighted.
• Hit Ctrl-C.
• Change Incoming mail (POP3): to "127.0.0.1".
• Click in the Account name: field.
• Hit the Home key.
• Press Ctrl-V.
• Enter :.
  • The Account name: field should now contain your original Incoming mail (POP3): server, then a colon, and finally your user name.
  • For example, the field could read "mail.ladedu.com:ladedu" if your original incoming mail server is "mail.ladedu.com" and your user name is "ladedu".
• Click OK.
• Finally, click Close.

Automatically File Mail and Can Spam

Now that Outlook Express works with POPfile, find out how to use their combined power to automatically file mail and can spam.