SpamWeed is a POP3 Proxy. A proxy is a piece of software that does something "on behalf of" other software, or the computer user. Below is a diagram that illustrates the relationship between SpamWeed, your email client program and your ISP's mail server:

It is very important that you have a good understanding of the above relationship. Because over 90% SpamWeed problems can be classified as one of the following two scenarios:

ERROR SCENARIO I

What's wrong? Your email client is not properly setup to receive mail through SpamWeed.
Result is: Spam message still gets into your inbox, as if SpamWeed does not exist at all.

ERROR SCENARIO II

What's wrong? SpamWeed is not running or your email client has been incorrectly configured so that either it is not connecting to SpamWeed, or it provides incorrect login information to SpamWeed.
Result is: You cannot receive email.

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