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The rest of your email will be downloaded to your computer after you
close the Mail Dispatcher window.
Sometimes it can be difficult to decide whether to accept a certain email, judging
only by the sender and the email's subject line. In such cases, Mail Dispatcher
gives you more information by downloading the email’s headers.
To view email headers:
select the email from the list of incoming email. The email’s headers will
be displayed in the lower part of the form.
Email headers are not of a significant size, generally a few dozen bytes, and
cannot contain malicious code.
Here is an example of when it might help to view an email’s headers: spammers
have installed a malicious program on a coworker’s computer that sends spam
with his name on it, to everyone on his email client’s contact list. The likelihood
that you are on your coworker's contact list is extremely high, and undoubtedly
your inbox will become full of spam from him. It is impossible to tell, judging by
the sender’s address alone, whether the email was sent by your coworker or a
spammer. The email headers will however reveal this information, allowing you
to check who sent the email, when, and what size it is, and to trace the email’s
path from the sender to your email server. All this information should be in the
email headers. You can then decide whether it is really necessary to download
that email from the server, or if it is better to delete it.
Note:
You can sort emails by any of the columns of the email list. To sort, click on the
column heading. The rows will be sorted in ascending order. To change the
sorting direction, click on the column heading again.
13.3.8. Actions for spam
If after scanning you find that an email is spam or potential spam, the next steps
that Anti-Spam takes depend on the object status and the action selected. By
default, emails that are
spam
or
potential spam
are modified: the markings
[!!
SPAM]
or
[?? Probable Spam]
are added to the subject line.
You can select additional actions for spam or potential spam. In Microsoft Office
Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express and The Bat! special plug-ins are provided to
do so. For other email clients, you can configure the filtration rules.
