k9 help needed

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Already set up and running Avast, but would like to give k9 antispam a
go. Anybody know how to do the settings?
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Jim:

You posted in: alt.comp.anti-virus and is the WRONG News Group.

This is a virus related News Group not a spam News Group and your query is OT.

Please post your queries in the appropriate spam related News Groups.

Dave



| Already set up and running Avast, but would like to give k9 antispam a
| go. Anybody know how to do the settings?
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|Jim:
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|You posted in: alt.comp.anti-virus and is the WRONG News Group.
|
|This is a virus related News Group not a spam News Group and your query is OT.
|
|Please post your queries in the appropriate spam related News Groups.
|
|Dave
|
Well THANK YOU!
I thought Avast was an anti-virus program, but I expect you know best.
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Well, Avast *is* and antivirus product, but it really doesn't have anything
to do with K9 per se.
K9 acts as a mail server proxy - it takes on the task of contacting your
real mail server to fetch your mail - you need to reconfigure your email
client program (Outlook or OutlookExpress or whatever) to hook up with K9.
The documentation that comes with K9 is actually pretty good at describing
in screen shots etc. the steps to configure many popular clients.

There might be some wrinkles with Avast if it is also setup to "intercept"
or proxy your mail access, so you might need to be careful who reads your
mail first (I would think Avast would be the right choice) followed by K9
followed by your email client... However, once you get that all chained
together correctly you must be careful if you attempt to remove any of the
parts of the chain as that might break the whole process and you will be
scrambling to repair it.

HTH
 
|Well, Avast *is* and antivirus product, but it really doesn't have anything
|to do with K9 per se.
|K9 acts as a mail server proxy - it takes on the task of contacting your
|real mail server to fetch your mail - you need to reconfigure your email
|client program (Outlook or OutlookExpress or whatever) to hook up with K9.
|The documentation that comes with K9 is actually pretty good at describing
|in screen shots etc. the steps to configure many popular clients.
|
|There might be some wrinkles with Avast if it is also setup to "intercept"
|or proxy your mail access, so you might need to be careful who reads your
|mail first (I would think Avast would be the right choice) followed by K9
|followed by your email client... However, once you get that all chained
|together correctly you must be careful if you attempt to remove any of the
|parts of the chain as that might break the whole process and you will be
|scrambling to repair it.
|
|HTH
|
Now you understand why I posted the question.
All I need now is the answer.
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You might get more help in a newsgroup "grc.spam" that is hosted on a news
server at "news.grc.com"
The author of K9 (Robin Keir) seems to answer a lot of questions about the
program.
 
|You might get more help in a newsgroup "grc.spam" that is hosted on a news
|server at "news.grc.com"
|The author of K9 (Robin Keir) seems to answer a lot of questions about the
|program.
|
Thank you
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Already set up and running Avast, but would like to give k9 antispam a
go. Anybody know how to do the settings?
Click to expand...

Not much to do. In your mail program, set the mail server to be localhost,
the port to be 9999 rather than 110, and change your user id from USER to
MAILSERVER/110/USER. So if you used to get mail from POP.ROGERS.COM on port
110 as user JOE, you would now get your mail from LOCALHOST on port 9999 as
user POP.ROGERS.COM/110/JOE.

Done.
 
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