E-mail SPAM Filter Guide - Preferences

CanIt-PRO allows each user to customize certain aspects of the Web-Based GUI. To change your preferences, click on the "Preferences" link.

The Preferences

  • Number of messages to display per page: Controls the number of messages per page in the message summary. Allowable values are 10, 30, 50, 100 or 200.
  • Show link for one-shot messages: Determines whether the "One-Shot messages" link is displayed in the message summary. If you find this link distracting, turn it off.
  • Sort messages by: Lets you sort messages either by date or by SPAM-scanning score.
  • Sort order:controls the sort order (ascending or descending).
  • Method for choosing SPAM-trap actions: Controls the type of graphical object you use to accept or reject messages. The "Drop-Down-List" style offers a drop-down list of choices, while the "Checkbox" style offers two or three buttons to accept or reject messages (or leave them as-is.)
  • Show relay column in trap display: If you select No, then the "Relay" column is not shown in the SPAM trap display. This may improve the layout on small screens.
  • Show recipient column in trap display: If you select Yes, then an extra "Recipient" column is shown in the SPAM trap display. Only the first recipient is shown; if there are more than one, then an elipsis (. . . ) is displayed. Note that you cannot sort the trap display by recipient.
  • Preferred image format: CanIt-PRO normally uses PNG images for its GUI. If your browser has trouble displaying PNG images, you can use JPEG images instead.
  • Use simplified GUI: If you select Yes, then you are given only a very simple interface to CanIt-PRO. See theSimplified Interface Pagefor details.
  • Show the "Actions Taken" page: If you select Yes, then when you take actions against messages, senders, and so on, CanIt-PRO displays a summary page describing the actions taken. If you select No, then CanIt-PRO skips this summary page, taking the specified actions and returning to the original page immediately.
  • Limit for COUNT queries: On large SPAM traps, it may take a long time for the database queries that count items, such as the number of messages, number of sender rules, etc. If you set this preference to a number from 500 to 10,000, then CanIt-PRO does not fully count items higher than the specified number. For example, if your trap contains 1877 messages, but you set this limit to 1000, then CanIt-PRO simply displays "More than 1000" for the number of messages. If you set this limit to the "magic" value 10,001, then CanIt-PRO does not limit how high it will count. If you set the limit to the other "magic" value of 1, then CanIt-PRO eliminates most COUNT queries. While this makes the interface somewhat less friendly, it can speed things up tremendously on busy installations.
  • Show statistics table on login screen: If you set this to Yes, then CanIt-PRO displays a summary of the contents of the trap. By default, this is turned off, because the query to generate the summary can take a considerable amount of time on a large trap.
  • Help Level: Some CanIt-PRO pages have built-in help text. You can set the level of help to one of:
    • Beginner - the most verbose form of help text.
    • Intermediate - somewhat less verbose help text.
    • Expert - very terse help text.
    • None - no help text at all
  • Hide help text by default: By default, the help text for each page is hidden, and there is a "Show Help" link that reveals the help text. This is to minimize the screen area taken up by help text, and to keep it as unobtrusive as possible. However, if you prefer to see the help by default, set this setting to No. To change your preferences, fill in the correct values for each preference and then click Update Preferences.

Changing your Password

To change your password, click on "Preferences" and then "Change Password".

Note: Only users in CanIt-PRO's user database can change their passwords. If a user was authenticated via an external authentication method, the "Change Password" link is not present.

To change the password:

  • Enter the new password in the Enter new password: box.
  • Enter the new password again in the Re-enter new password: box.
  • Enter your old password in the Enter your existing password: box.
  • Click Change Password

Quick Links

Because of the hierarchical arrangement of CanIt-PRO Web pages, it may take two clicks to get to a page. Some pages allow you to add them to a personal menu of "Quick Links".

For example, go to the "Rules : Custom Rules" page. At the bottom of the page is a button called "Add to Quick Links".

Click on that button, and the Custom Rules page will be added to your own personal menu of quick links. In this way, you can make pages you access frequently available from any other page with a single click.

To remove a page from the Quick Links menu, visit that page and click on "Remove from Quick Links" at the bottom of the page. To clear out all your quick links, click on "Clear Quick Links". Confirm the clearing by clicking on "Really Clear Quick Links".

Note that not all pages are quick-linkable; any page that is immediately reachable from the top-level menu is not quick-linkable, and neither is a page that depends on user input or form data.

Quick Links are maintained on a per-user basis, so different users can have their own sets of quick links, according to how they use CanIt-PRO most effectively.