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Email Spam
Filter FAQ's
SUMMARY: How to configure Microsoft Outlook
Express 6.0 to prevent SPAM.
Open
Outlook Express, if not
already.
Select The
Tools menu, and select
Message Rules,and select
Mail...
In the new Message Rules
window, click on New...
In the first
box(Conditions) Check the condition named Where the
Subject contains specific words
In the second box(Actions) Check
Move it to the specified folder
Below in the Third box
(Description) click on
contains specific words.
In the Type Specific
Words window click in the first box and
type****SPAM*****(5 asterisks)
Click
Add, then click on
OK.
In the same window click on
specified folder.
Click the
New Folder button, in the name field type SPAM or
whatever you want your folder to be called
Click
OK, now make sure your new folder is
selected, then click
OK
In the last box(Name) type a
name for the rule like SPAM filter or something else
descriptive, then click OK
Click OK to close the Message
Rules window.
Your all done, check in your SPAM
folder occasionally to make sure its working and also
check for any email that you might have wanted.
Note:
Occassionally you may also want to empty this folder.
SUMMARY: How to configure Microsoft Outlook
2000 to prevent SPAM.
Open
Outlook, if not already.
Select the Tools menu, and select
Rules Wizard...
In the new Rules Wizard screen,
click on New...
Make sure Check messages when they
arrive is selected, then click>Next >
Check the condition named
with specific words in the subject.
In the new Search Text window click
in the Add new:
box and type*****SPAM*****
Click
Add, then click on
OK .
Click
Next > in the Rules wizard window.
Check the action called
move it to the specified folder.
Below in the Rule Discription window
click on specified.
Click the New... button, in the name
field type SPAM or whatever you want your folder to be
called
Click
OK, now make sure your new folder is selected,
then click OK
Click
Next >, and click
Next > again, as we have no exceptions
Now it should be asking for a name
for our filter, type
spam filter or something desciptive, then
click Finish.
Click
OK to close the Rules Wizard window.
Your all done, check in your SPAM
folder occasionally to make sure its working and also
check for any email that you might have wanted.
Note: Occassionally
you may also want to empty this folder.
It might also be better to check for the X-Spam-Flag in
the header instead of the Subject: *****SPAM... To do
this use the condition called with
specific words in the message header and use
X-Spam-Flag: YES as the search text.
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