Main User Dashboard Help

Purpose of Main User Dashboard

The Dashboard provides you with a summary of your current KeyMail account. From these page you can quickly see the last six entries in the SpamJadoo database for your pre-approved, unvalidated, and validated addresses. You can also see a summary of your defined KeyMail addresses and aliases. You can also make changes to your user settings from this screen.

Main User Dashboard - Without Any Entries

This is the main view of you Users Dashboard when you first login. Notice that currently there are no entries in any of the fields in the various parts of the dashboard. Once you start using your new KeyMail addresses this will change.

Dashboard Login screen

The main Dashboard screen is divided into sections that show you the six most recent entries in that particular portion of the SpamJadoo database. Each section allows you to drill down quickly and see all of the entries in that section. Additionally, you can easily make any changes that need to be made from the screen shown.

Main User Dashboard - With Entries

Main Dashboard Screen

Within each section you will notice that most of the column headers are underlined. This means that you can re-sort that section by that field within the database. The first three major sections of the Dashboard deal with the three types users SpamJadoo will track.

Add To Whitelist

This option at the top of the Dashboard allows you to add an email address to your Pre-approved Email Addresses. It is called a whitelist since it represents email addresses that you want to communicate with. Once you select this option you will be taken to a separate screen and asked to provide all of the information needed to add an entry to your whitelist.

Pre-approved Email Addresses

Pre-approved Email Addresses

Pre-approved email addresses are those you have added to the database by one of three methods. These three methods include:

Pre-approved Email Addresses

The above screenshot shows you the four sortable fields as well as the Policy, Scope, and Delete settings. Just click on any one of the sortable fields and you will see the same list re-ordered in the specified sort order.

The Delete column should be easy to understand, you use it to delete that particular entry. Policy and scope will need more explanation.

The Policy column allows you to easily change an entry to one of the three basic types:

The Scope column allows you to set how inclusive or exclusive your policy is going to be. For example, there are three settings:

Since this main Dashboard screen only shows the six most recent entries to see the other entries requires you to either select the Pre-approved option from the left hand menu or you can click on the option on the right hand side of the pre-approved title line entitled View All Pre-approved Senders.

Unvalidated Email Addresses

These email addresses are those that have sent you an email, but have not responded to the Challenge/Response or been approved by you. Most of these emails will be SPAMMERS. However, they can also be someone you want to receive mail from as well. You can easily change them into a validated user from this section of the dashboard.

Pre-approved Email Addresses

All of the other options and features work the same way as they did for Pre-approved Emails.

Validated Email Addresses

The Validated Email Addresses contain those addresses that have been validated through the Challenge/Response method. You have the same features and options available in this section of the dashboard as well.

Pre-approved Email Addresses

Left Hand Menu

Alway present on each page is the left-hand menu column that will quickly allow you to jump to a new menu option. Each section shown on the main Dashboard has it's own individual help section.

Keymail Address

The Keymail Address section shows you the six most recent Keymail addresses that you have created.  It will also show you the date you created the keymail, the scope that is currently set, the Expiration type and number of days to the that keymail address will expire.  The number 999 indicates that their is no expiration date for this keymail.  If you want to change the scope of one of the shown keymail addresses just select the desired scope and it will change immediately.

Pre-approved Email Addresses

This section will also tell you how many different email addresses can use this particular keymail address.  The number 99 indicates that there is no limit on the number of senders that can send to this keymail address.  The Used column indicated how many senders have used this keymail address.  The last two columns allow you to edit or delete the keymail address.

You can also sort this section based on keymail adddresses, creation date, and scope.  There is also a View All Keymails option.

Aliases

This section of the Dashboard allows you to create your own email aliases.  This feature allows you to change your email address to whatever you want within reason.  There are limitations that are imposed on this feature.  You can not become another user that already exists on your email system.  You can edit or delete existing aliases from this section of the Dashboard. 

Pre-approved Email Addresses

As is standard with all sections you can select a View All Aliases option to see all defined aliases.

Current Status Line

The last section of the User Dashboard is the status line.  It tells you your current status, if auto-approve on CC: is turned on, and allows you to change you personalized users settings.  As mentioned in the Getting Started section there are three modes of operation for your use of your keymail address.

Pre-approved Email Addresses

These thee modes include: silent, passive, and active.  See the Getting Started Guide for more information about these three modes.  Auto-approve on CC: allows any email senders that have been CC'd on one of your validated emails to be automatically added to your Pre-Approved list.

SpamJadoo Software www.SpamJadoo.com, © 1 January, 2005