Dspam Settings and Usage

Dspam is able to dramatically reduce spam email volume and provides unmatched filtering accuracy to guarantee you only get the email you want from the people you know.
 

First you will need to log in to your account.

1.  Log into your e-mail by visiting http://webmail.vcu.org
2.  When prompted for Username and Password enter your username and password.
Example Username: johndoe & Password johnpassword
3.  Press OK

This is our webmail interface where you will be able to see any new e-mails that you have yet to download.

Enabling and using DSpam

1.  From the webmail screen click on Spam Filtering.
2.  At the top of the screen you will see a button to either Enable or Disable DSpam for your account.
3.  Click Enable DSpam to turn it on.

DSpam Settings

1.  Quarantine
This is the most important screen you need to become familiar with. This screen will show all the e-mails that DSpam has caught and flagged as spam. You will see the date the e-mail was sent, the e-mail address it was sent from and the subject of the e-mail. You may read the e-mail by clicking on the subject of the one you wish to view. If there are any false positives or e-mail you believe should not be blocked and categorized as spam put a check next to it and click on deliver checked. This will resend the e-mail to you so you will receive it as well as teach DSpam that the e-mail was not spam. If all the e-mails in the quarantine folder are spam you may delete them all by either clicking on delete all or putting a check next to the ones you wish to delete and clicking delete checked. When using DSpam you may want to check the quarantine periodically to make sure that it has not filtered anything important.

2.  Performance
This shows you how well DSpam is doing with blocking spam from your inbox. It currently shows filtering statistics for how many e-mails have been caught, learned, scanned, false positives and your Spam Ratio. Also shown on this screen is your performance statistics for your spam filtering accuracy, false positive rate and overall accuracy.

Learning New Spam

DSpam can learn from it's mistakes. If you still receive any spam in your inbox simply reclassify mail as spam from the History menu under webmail.i-c.net/dspam. This will tell DSpam that you no longer want this type of e-mail and it will block any future e-mails of similar content from being delivered.