The Online Help (Spamihilator Wiki) contains the official software documentation and some tutorials for Spamihilator.

Other mail clients have to be configured manually. Please have a look at the online help.

1. Most spam senders use their mail accounts only once, just to send a few spam mails. After that they delete these accounts. Sending faked error messages would produce further error messages which will be sent back to you.
2. Usually spam senders fake their e-mail addresses or even use the ones of other Internet users. Hence, faked error messages could get into the mailboxes of innocent people!
3. You cannot thoroughly fake an error message. Spam senders could find out that the message is faked and, thus, that there is a real person behind your mail address.

There is a real chance a copy of the mail you’re looking for is still in the Training Area. If you find it there you may view it, but you will not be able to transfer it to your mail client’s inbox anymore.

You can either use the Setup-Wizard (Start/Programs/Spamihilator/Setup-Wizard) or configure your client by hand. Therefor read the help files.

Furthermore make sure, that the spam-filters are not disabled. Open Spamihilator’s settings dialog and click on "Filter-Properties". Enable all filters (like the Learning Filter and the Spam-Word-Filter).

Maybe you have a Firewall installed. Please make sure that it doesn’t prevent Spamihilator to fully access the Internet. The program should be able to act as a local mail server, too.

On some systems the e-mail client is not able to resolve the address of the local POP3 server “localhost”. In this case, open the e-mail client’s account settings and change the POP3 server from “localhost” to “127.0.0.1″ (without quotation marks).

In Outlook you can enable the authentication as follows:
Launch Outlook and open your account settings. Choose your e-mail account from the list and click on "Properties". Open the "Server" pane and enable the option "Server-Authentication" (below). Click on the "Settings" button. Enter your right user name and your right password. Close the dialog by clicking on OK.

In Eudora you cannot specify an extra-username for outgoing connections. You have to follow the advices of Qualcomm:
http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/2107hq.html

Restart the program. "Socket-Error" should not appear again.

Now you have to change the settings in your e-mail client. Open your account settings. Choose "Server-Settings" or "Connection-Settings" or something like that and change the port of the POP3-Server to the same value you entered in Spamihilator.

Now, everything should work.

The Spam-Word-Filter scans new e-mails for common keywords: So called Spam-Words.
The default installation of Spamihilator has many common spam words predefined. Of course you can add custom spam words. Every keyword has a certain spam-probability. If a word is most likely indicating a spam-mail, its probability should have a value of 100%.

While the Spam-Word-Filter only recognizes common spam words, the Learning Filter also recognizes common non-spam-words, which indicate regular e-mails that should not be deleted. Every word has a certain probability. With the rules defined from Thomas Bayes (English mathematician, 18. century) Spamihilator calculates whether an e-mail is spam or not. This filtering method is also called Bayesian Method or Bayesian Filter.

In addition you can add e-mail addresses to the list of blocked senders. You will find this list in the options dialog.

Spamihilator takes care of the recycle bin’s content size. Old messages will be deleted automatically.

If the Setup-Wizard doesn’t find one of your accounts you will have to configure it manually. Please read the help files:
http://wiki.spamihilator.com/doku.php?id=en:configclient