User Manual

Pidmail is a spam filter, using Pidkey technology which is 100% effective against spam

Pidmail uses the Pidkey technology. Pidkey is the most effective spam filter technology on the market today. This technology protects access to your mailbox by an exclusive code (Pidkey ) without disrupting your regular/legitimate emails. Pidmail protects your mailbox immediately after installation.

Once installed, Pidmail, thanks to Pidkey technology, blocks 100% of spam. Pidmail is extremely easy to use and contains many useful features such as:

• Automatic elimination of spam right after installation
• Automatic updates of authorized senders from your address book
• No disruption of regular/legitimate email communication

From Windows' system tray, you can configure Pidmail. Right click on Pidmail's icon and you will be able to manage all Pidmail's features.

Popup menu allows fast access to configuration options:

• Options: Opens the configuration screen.
• Access option management: Allows you to manage access options for each of your selected contacts.
• Language: Change the language.
• Check for updates: Upgrade Pidmail if a new version is available.
• Updates setting: Choose the desired options for receiving updates.
• Help: Get access to online user's manual.
• About Pidmail: Display version number of Pidmail.
• Compare Pidmail edition: Show difference between all Pidmail's versions. It allows you to choose the one that suits your needs best.
• Upgrade to a professional edition: Allows you to obtain Pidmail's professional edition
• Exit: Exit Pidmail.

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Accessibility options management

This feature allows the fine-tuning of your security parameters. From this menu, you can customize Pidmail's analysis criteria.

Pidkey®: Allows you to enter a contact's Pidkey. This key is received from the contact and it will allow you writing directly without receiving identification messages from this contact.

Send my Pidkey to xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx(ex:jsmith@domain.com): Check this option if you wish to send your Pidkey at this contact.

Forcing this contact to use a Pidkey to reach you: Allow you to enter a contact's particular PidKey. This key gives the contact the necessary authorization to send you emails. This contact cannot use another Pidkey to reach you and this email address must be used with this Pidkey.

Choose this option to force all messages from a contact to use a particular PidKey.

Forcing this contact to use an Alias to reach me: Allows you to specify an alias that would be required in order to accept an email from the domain name. The alias is the part preceding the email address. For example: in the following email address "Support", the word "Support" is an alias.

Choose this option to force all messages coming from a specific domain to have an alias for validation.

Note: If a domain is used as contact, (for example: "@domain.com ") in the absence of the specific Pidkey or the alias filter, all incoming messages from this domain will be automatically accepted (considered legitimate).

None: Choose this option is you don’t want to send your PidKey thus allowing Pidmail to automatically accept incoming messages from this contact without any constraints.

This section will provide you with detailed information regarding the available options included in Pidmail.

Pidmail configuration

• Personal identification (PidKey): allows modifying your Pidkey.
• Add my PidKey to outgoing messages: Check this option to include your Pidkey® into the messages you will send.
• Add recipients of my messages to my address book: Check this option in order to add the recipients of your messages to your address book. This option replaces the one provided by Outlook Express.
• Add sender who owns my PidKey to my address book: Check this option to allow senders using your Pidkey®, to be added into your address book automatically. The system will require the user’s confirmation before carrying out with the addition.
• Add sender's recipients to my address book: Check this option in order to allow the other recipients to be added into your address book automatically. The system will require your confirmation before carrying out with the addition.
• Search my PidKey into: Check this option if you want that the program searches your PidKey in the text of the received messages.
  • 5 first lines of incoming message text: seek PidKey in the first five lines of the message.
  • 10 first lines of incoming message text: seek PidKey in the first 10 lines of the message.
  • In the text of incoming message (Not recommended): seek PidKey in the text of the message.

Note: Please note that the process of seeking the PidKey in the text of the introductory messages can be time consuming during the handling of bulky messages.

• Sign my outgoing messages : Check this option in order to inform your correspondents that you are protected by the most advanced anti-spam technology currently available on the market.
• Use the default email address: Check this option in order to force the system to use this address as return address when you send identification messages.
• Deactivate old Pidkey in X day(s): indicate the date you want the old Pidkey to be disabled. This option is available when changing the settings of your Pidkey.

• Keep in the SPAM folder for x days : Choose this option if you wish to specify the number of days messages marked as spam should be kept before being transferred into the "deleted folder". You can review all messages marked as spam by Pidmail before they are deleted.

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Options - Notices

Identification messages are sent to unknown senders. They are used to identify the unknown senders before authorizing them. This option allows configuring the behavior of the system for all sent identification messages.

• Allow X days for the recipient to answer: Set the expiration period of a Pidkey sent to a contact (as part of a message). When the Pidkey expires, all previously received messages from that address will be consider SPAM by Pidmail.
• Allow a second trial to be sent to the sender: Check this option if you wish that a second notice be sent to a sender. This notice will be sent only if the sender answers incorrectly the identification message sent to him.
• Send reminder messages two days later for quarantined sender: Check this option to send a reminder to a sender whose message is in quarantine. This reminder is sent two days after sending the identification message and only if the sender has not already answered the identification message he received.
• Send maximum X message(s) for same sender in quarantine: indicates the number of messages to send for one sender (same email address) into quarantine.
• Send a reception notice on the identification message response: Choose this option if you want to send a notice that announces the sender if his message has been received. This notice is send after an identification message response is received.
• Add sender who identifies himself correctly to my address book: Choose this option if you want contacts that know your Pidkey or those that responded to the identification question correctly, to be added to your address book.

This option makes it possible to maintain up to date the authorized list of contacts.

• Delay sending identification messages: Check this option if you do not want to send all notices immediately (identification message, delivery status message, message reminder), after they are created by the system.
• Delete notices sent after X day(s) of retention : Check this option if you want the system to delete sent notices after the retention period expires.

Identification messages sent have two difficulty levels. It is recommended to use a higher difficulty level, i.e. use temporary image code. The advantage of using image code is that is easy to read for a human being but very difficult to read for a machine. Thus, it becomes practically impossible for spammers to automate their systems to send their spams (junk emails).

This option allows setting a difficulty level of identification messages sent to an unknown sender.

• With temporary image code: choose this option if you want to send an identification message with a temporary code image.
• Without temporary image code: choose this option if you want to send an identification message with a temporary code. This code should be copied in the object area of the identification message’s answer.

It is possible to configure the system not to send identification messages at certain types of email addresses.

This option makes it possible to exclude certain addresses starting by a prefix specify in front of @. For example, for avoid that identification messages be sent to email addresses with noreply@example.com, you should enter noreply@ and save it.

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Options - Lists

It is possible to use email addresses only to forwarding. In this case, you will certainly want that all the notices created by the system such as identification messages, reminders etc to have as return email address the corresponding forwarding email address.

This option is used for specifying email addresses corresponding to the forwarding email addresses. These email addresses can be searched in the header of the received message. If one of the email addresses is found, the system will use it as return email address. This happens when the system will create a notice to send.

It is possible to block a particular email or a complete domain. For example, if you realize you are on a subscribe list without your consent. The system can eliminate this type of message; you can even block any message coming from a complete domain.

This option is used for indicating email addresses or domain names that you want blocked. If one of these blocked addresses or domains is found, the system will send the message in your Spam folder without any other notice.

Except the mentioned exceptions, any received message from the visited Web sites will be accept by default.

This option makes it possible to add exceptions to the Web sites accepted. I.e. the messages coming from registered Websites added as exceptions will be managed like any other message. Therefore, they will not be accepted by default.

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