SpamAssassin help

[lloe]

Hello Fellow Users,   When I saw Don's email " How neophytes without mastery of computers can use spamassassin. " I felt that I am someone who is also in Don's shoes.   I am a fairly new person to PCs and do not feel strong enough in knowledge to understand what and how I need to personalize any of the SpamAssassin modules.   I do not have any knowledge of Perl.   I use Outlook Express 6 as my main e-mail program.   I use Internet Exployer 6 on a Windows 98SE operating machine.   There are 7 of us here at home using this machine. Each of the family members has one Outlook Express e-mail account. I have  three account - personal, business, and one I strictly use for school type issues. Each of these 10 plus accounts has been hit with spam type of mailings and I want to be able to catch as many as possible so that the younger members are not hit with stuff they should not be exposed to.   I originally started with version 2.55, and have attempted 'upgrades' up through 2.64, but I do not know if these were done correctly or completely. With the 2.55 version, I created my own white-list for each of the 10 plus accounts and incorporated it into the following : the ' C:\Program Files\SpamAssassin POP3 Proxy\defaults '  user prefs file the ' C:\Program Files\SpamAssassin POP3 Proxy\lib\Mail\SpamAssassin '  local.cf and user prefs files the ' C:\Program Files\SpamAssassin POP3 Proxy\rules '  local.cf and user prefs files the ' C:\Program Files\SpamAssassin POP3 Proxy\spamassassin '  local.cf and user prefs files   All I have done with these upgrades [up through 2.64] is to 'unzip' and move all of those extracted folders and files to the program folder '  C:\Program Files\SpamAssassin POP3 Proxy ' [which was the program folder that 2.55 originally created]. I have kept the original saproxy.exe application program. It is version 1.0.0.0 dated June 6, 2003. I also kept the original sa-learn.exe application program. It is also version 1.0.0.0 dated June 6, 2003. I also propagated the above mentioned white-list to each of those files.   Frankly, I do not know what version update of SpamAssassin I am running.   Would someone be willing to walk me through - step by step - the process - from start to finish? I had a head injury and believe that this is a bit confusing for me to decipher on my own.   Thanking you in advance for any assistance - and willingness to at least hear me out.   Please advise.   Have a Nice Day! Lucille Loe [EMAIL PROTECTED]       --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.754 / Virus Database: 504 - Release Date: 9/6/2004