Installation Instructions: NOTE: Install redemption from http://www.dimastr.com/redemption/ first If you did not explicitly install Outlook's CDO when you first installed Office, you almost certainly won't have it installed. 1) If you do not have Outlook's CDO installed: a) Start the Office setup program from your installation CD. b) Click Add or Remove Features c) Expand the list of features for Outlook by clicking on the + symbol next to Microsoft Outlook for Windows d) Click on the icon next to 'Collaboration Data Objects' and select 'Run from My Computer' from the menu that appears e) Click on 'Update Now' 2) Open Outlook and select Tools / Macro / Visual Basic Editor 3) Select File / Import file 4) Browse to the location of the OLSpamCop module (OLSpamCop2.bas), select it, and click open 5) Select Tools / References and check the boxes next to: 'Microsoft HTML Object Library' 'Microsoft CDO 1.2.1 Library' 'Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library' 'SafeOutlook Library If 'Microsoft Forms 2.0 Object Library' is not listed, click 'browse' and add the file 'FM20.DLL' which will either be in C:\Windows\System32\ or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ depending on your windows version. If 'Microsoft CDO 1.2.1 Library' is not listed, see installation point 1 If SafeOutlook library is not listed, browse to where you installed redemption (C:\program files\redemption ?) and select the file redemption.dll 6) If you are using the SpamCop reporting feature, Change the value of SPAMCOP_ADDRESS in the line of code beginning with 'Public Const SPAMCOP_ADDRESS' to the email address Spamcop gave you when you signed up. Change the other config lines below it if required. 6) Click File / Save [project name] 7) Select File / Close and return to Microsoft Outlook Changing Macro protection level: You may have to change your macro protection level to medium, because the macro will not run at all if it is set to high. To do this: 1) Click Tools / Macro / Security 2) Set the level to medium and click OK. Creating buttons to click (1): 1) In Outlook itself (not in an open email or similar), Click Tools / Customize 2) Click on the 'Commands' tab 3) In the 'Categories' list, select 'Macros' 4) Drag 'Project1.fldReportSpam', 'Project1.fldMessagePreview' and fldCopySpam to somewhere on the toolbar. 5) Right click on each button and select 'Default Style' 6) If desired, right click on each button and select 'Change Button Image' and select a different image for the buttons 7) As above, you can change the name of the buttons to e.g. "Report as Spam" and "Preview message" by right clicking the button and changing the value in the 'Name' field Done! Now, when you open a spam email, you can just click your button and then wait for the verification email from Spamcop. You can also just report spam from the message list by selecting one or more emails and clicking your reporting button. Do make sure it is spam first though by using the Preview Message button.