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Now that you understand the main principles of MailWalker, you want to make it work ... Ca tombe bien, with the default options you'll already be able to launch a first collection quite effective.

To begin, create a new session, and then add a site:

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Enter the address of the starting and then specify the options and pathways for exploration.

Walking options:
You specify how MailWalker must travel sites specifying the depth of relationship (number of external links "cascade" to follow) and the breadth of research (number of links to follow up for each site).
Following the example provided (depth = 2 and width = 125), you tell MailWalker to follow the external links that are a maximum of 2 sites compared to the URL input and detects only 125 links diffrérents per site. The maximum number of site ranking will be 1 to 125 and that of rank 2 (rank up because the URL before the rank is 0 by convention) to 125x125. The maximum number of sites is to go to ... 15,750! This represents a great amount!

Exploration options:
You specify how MailWalker to crawl each site. The concept of depth and width is the same as for the journey, except that here it applies to each site and, consequently, the depth of links no longer involved in the calculation: the maximum number of pages to explore for each site is indicated horizontally, regardless of depth. Thus in the preceding example, the maximum number of pages to explore for each site is 110 and the maximum number of sites is 15,750. The total of all the pages will be to analyze 15750x110 almost 2 million pages. Think about this when you set these parameters journey and exploration ...


Once you have added the site (or sites if you want to start a search from multiple sites), you can start the collection by choosing [run].
You can follow the progress of the collection in the main window MailWalker the sites you view the status of rangelands and snapshot exploration and the view displays the mail addresses already collected (and meet the criteria selection chosen in the options).

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