Setting Up Your Webmail Accounts - McAfee INTERNET SECURITY SUITE 2008 User Manual

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Setting up your Webmail accounts

If you use a browser to read your e-mail messages, you must
configure Anti-Spam to connect to your account and filter your
messages. To add your Webmail account to Anti-Spam, simply
add the account information provided by your e-mail provider.
After you add a Webmail account, you can edit your account
information, and obtain more information about filtered
Webmail. If you are not using a Webmail account any more, or
you do not want it filtered, you can remove it.
Anti-Spam works with various e-mail programs, such as POP3,
POP3 Webmail, Yahoo®, MSN/Hotmail, Windows Live Mail, and
MAPI accounts. POP3 is the most common account type, and is
the standard for Internet e-mail. When you have a POP3 account,
Anti-Spam connects directly to the e-mail server and filters
messages before they are retrieved by your e-mail program. POP3
Webmail, Yahoo, MSN/Hotmail, and Windows Mail accounts are
Web-based. Filtering POP3 Webmail accounts is similar to
filtering POP3 accounts. MAPI is a system designed by Microsoft
that supports many types of messaging, including Internet
e-mail, fax, and Exchange Server messaging. Currently, only
Microsoft Outlook can work directly with MAPI accounts.
Note:
Although Anti-Spam can access MAPI accounts, it does not
filter your e-mail until you have retrieved your messages with
Microsoft Outlook.
In this chapter
Add a Webmail account..............................................119
Edit a Webmail account..............................................120
Remove a Webmail account .......................................121
Understanding Webmail account information ........121
Add a Webmail account
Add a POP3 (for example, Yahoo), MSN/Hotmail, or Windows
Mail (only paid versions are fully supported) Webmail account if
you want to filter the messages in that account for spam.
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Open the Spam Protection pane.
How?