Filtering Spam Under Outlook Express

Dialogue's e-mail servers scan all incoming messages for criteria often found in junk email (i.e. spam). When a message matches this criteria, the keyword {SPAM?} is inserted into the beginning of the subject line. Users are able to isolate this junkmail from legitimate email by setting up a Message Rule under Outlook Express. The instructions below will help you setup a rule that will isolate incoming SPAM messages from legitimate messages by placing them into a SPAM folder (rather than your Inbox). From there, suspected messages can be reviewed and/or deleted periodically.

1. Open Outlook Express

2. Create a folder named SPAM
          Select Local Folders (above the Inbox)
          Click File...Folders...New
          Type SPAM for the folder name.
          Click OK

3. Create a rule to filter messages to SPAM folder
          Click Tools...Message Rules...Mail
          Click New to create a new rule



          Place a check mark next to "Where the Subject line contains specific rules"

          At the bottom of the screen, click on the words "contains specific words"

          Type in {SPAM?} and Click OK


          Place a check mark next to "Copy it to the specified folder"

          At the bottom of the window, look for the line "Copy to the specified folder"
          Click on the word "specified"

          Highlight the SPAM folder we created in Step 2



Click OK

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