Farming Online Premier Anti spam

Premier Anti Spam Features

Premier Anti Spam is FREE with Farming Online Subscription/Broadband.
Friends Anti Spam works on the principle of processing e-mail into two groups:

e-mail from known senders (ie based on your Friends list taken from your address book).
e-mail from unkown senders (ie e-mail from those who are not listed in your address book).

Receive e-mail from approved senders only and choose how unapproved senders are handled.

Custom auto resposonse reply for all unapproved senders.

Security PIN bypass (allowing you to give out your e-mail to new business contacts without having to add them to the approved senders list). To activate PIN exception, choose a PIN and send to Farming Online via the contact form click here. Once confirmed, you can give your PIN out to new contacts without them being blocked by Friends Anti Spam.

Specific enquiries bypass - advertise your farm business/holiday cottage website and invite enquiries without the associated spam (subject to website).

No more downloading of unwanted e-mail (spam e-mail is processed by the servers so you only receive important e-mail).

Set-up Friends Anti Spam

- Select My Account (top left of the Farming Online homepage).
- Select e-mail Manager and log in using e-mail address and password.
- Select Open Friends section (third section on right hand side).

You will see e-mail Manager with the following tabs:
Home | Global | Friends | Message | Pending

Global
Global allows you to set your Friends Anti Spam level:

Premier - Blocks all except for your Friends. Unknown senders receive a customisable automated message.
Keep track - marks e-mail headers according to Friend or Unknown, no action taken (recommended for advanced use only)
Request Confirmation - Unknown senders (people not listed as Friends) receive a customisable automated message asking them to reply. Unknown senders who reply are listed under the Pending tab.

Friends
Friends is where you manage your approved senders (Friends) list. You can add single e-mail addresses or multiple addresses (separated with a comma). The simplest way to setup your friends is to upload your Windows Address Book (WAB). Follow steps 1.0 & 1.1:

1.0 Upload WAB to Friends Anti spam

- Open WAB (within Outlook Express or Windows>>Programs>>Accessories Menu).
- Select File & Export
   - Select Other Address Book
    - Select Text File (Comma Separated Values) and Export
    - Select Browse and select a file location (eg Desktop) and Enter a filename.
     - Select Save
- Select Next >
- Untick all fields except for e-mail address & select Finish.

The exported [file].csv file will be saved to your selected location (eg Desktop) ready to be imported to your Farming Online Friends Anti Spam.

1.1 Upload WAB to Farming Online Friends Anti Spam

- Open Windows Notepad (Windows>>Programs>>Accessories Menu).
- Select File & Open
- Change Files of type to All files
- Select [file].csv from selected location (eg Desktop) and Open

Within Notepad, each e-mail will be listed on a separate line. Simply add a comma after each e-mail and delete the carriage return so that e-mails appear as: email1,email2, email3,email4 etc.

Tip - upload a max of 25 e-mails at a time.

Once formated like this the emails can be copied in one block to the e-mail manager: MyAccount.asp

Alternatively e-mail [file].csv as an attachment to: accounts@farming.co.uk

Message
e-mail from unknown senders receive a default autoresponse message. You have the option of keeping the default message or overwriting with your own customised version.

Pending
e-mail replies to the autoresponse message from users requesting to be added to your Friends list (Only applies to Request Confirmation selection on the Global tab).

Further information - Contact support