SPAM RULES

Installing Spam Rules

Microsoft Outlook

1.From the Tools menu, click Rules (or Rules and Alerts, selecting the E-mail Rules tab) . 2. Click the New... (or New Rule) button.
3. Select Move messages based on content (or Select "Start from a blank rule" and click "Check messages when they arrive.") and click Next.
4. Check the box "with specific words in the message header." 5. In the Rule description box, click the underlined link "specific words."
6. Type into the Search Text box "X-Spam-Level: *****". The number of asterisks determines the spam-threshold. Five asterisks is a good starting value. To reject more spam, use fewer asterisks (but at the risk of rejecting more valid messages). To reduce the risk of rejecting good mail, use more asterisks (but you will reject less spam). You may use from 1 to 10 asterisks. 7. Click OK (or the Add button and then OK).
8. If you get a box asking "What do you want to do with the message?", click "move it to the specified folder. 9. Click the underlined link "specified folder" and select an appropriate folder (e.g., Spam, Junk E-mail). Click the New button if necessary to create a new folder. 10. Click Finish.

Microsoft Outlook Express

You cannot create mail rules based on header information with Outlook Express.

Apple Mail

We are indebted to Eric Gold for the following informaiton.

1. Click on the Mail Menu and chose Preferences.... 2. Click on the Rules icon on the far right and then click on Add Rule button right below it.
3. Type an appropriate rule description in the Description field
4. Click on the From popup and select Edit Header List all the way at the bottom.
5. In the Message Headers window, click on the + and add the following text to the list: `X-Spam-Level` 6. Click OK 7. For the Perform the following actions Pop-up, configure to Move Message to mailbox Junk (or any place else you want to put this mail). 8. Then click again on the From popup again and select X-Spam- Level, which should now appear near the top of the popup menu items. 9. Then after the "Contains" popup type in: `*****` (five asterisks). The number of asterisks determines the spam-threshold. Five asterisks is a good starting value. To reject more spam, use fewer asterisks (but at the risk of rejecting more valid messages). To reduce the risk of rejecting good mail, use more asterisks (but you will reject less spam). You may use from 1 to 10 asterisks. 10. Click OK and you're done. If you need to change the rule you can go back and edit it at any time.

You now have a rule that will look at the "X-Spam-Level" header of every email and will check for five or more asterisks. If it finds them it will place that email in the Junk folder.