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Filtering Unwanted E-mail - Netscape 4.x
How to filter spam to the Deleted Items folder:
1. From the Edit menu, select Message Filters.
2. Click on the New button.
3. Check the circle next to Match all of the following.
4. In the first drop-down menu (after "the"), select sender.
5. In the second drop-down menu (after "of the message"), select is.
6. In the text box immediately following, type the sender's e-mail address.
7. In the third drop-down menu (after "then") select delete.
8. Click OK.
9. Click OK again.
Filtering Unwanted E-mail - Microsoft Outlook 98/2000
How to filter spam to the Deleted Items folder in Outlook:
1. Locate the e-mail from the person that you want to filter out.
2. Click on it once to highlight it.
3. On the toolbar, click on the Organize button.
4. The e-mail address of the person who was selected in Step 1 will appear in the "Create a rule" portion of the window.
5. In the "Create a rule to move new messages" drop-down menu, select from.
6. Under "Create a rule," select Deleted Items from the lowest drop-down menu.
7. Click on the Create button.
8. Outlook may display a window asking if you would like to apply this rule to the current folder you are in. Click Yes.
9. Click on the X in the upper right-hand corner to close the "Organize" window.
This rule will now apply to all e-mail from this subject.
Filtering Unwanted E-mail - Microsoft Outlook Express 4.x
Outlook Express can be configured to filter your e-mail as it comes into your Inbox. You can use this feature to place e-mail into specific folders. This feature is especially useful for filtering out unwanted e-mail.
1. From the Tools menu, select Inbox Assistant.
2. Click on the Add button.
3. In the Properties window, type in the criteria that you want the incoming messages to match.
4. Under "Perform the following action," check the box next to the action item that you want.
5. Click the folder, person or file that you want to send the matching incoming messages to.
6. To change the priorities by which messages are sorted, click the Move Up or Move Down buttons in the Inbox Assistant dialogue box.
7. To add more to this list, repeat steps 3-6 listed above.
8. Click OK when you are finished.
Filtering Unwanted E-mail - Microsoft Outlook Express 5.x
Outlook Express can be configured to filter your e-mail as it comes into your Inbox. You can use this feature to place e-mail into specific folders. This feature is especially useful for filtering out unwanted e-mail.
1. From the Tools menu, select Message Rules and click on Blocked Senders List. The Message Rules window will appear.
2. Click on the Add button. The Add Sender window will appear asking you to type in the e-mail address of the sender who is sending the mail that you want to ignore.
3. Type in the e-mail address that you want to have blocked.
4. Ensure that the circle next to Mail messages is checked and click OK. The Message Rules window will appear displaying the e-mail address that you have blocked.
Note: You can use this feature to filter out Mail, Newsgroups, or both by checking the circle next to the corresponding category.
5. To add more addresses to this list, repeat steps 2 - 4 listed above.
6. Click OK when you are finished.
Filtering Unwanted E-mail - Eudora
1. Click on Mailbox then New. Name the new mailbox "Junk Email" and DO NOT check the Make it a Folder box.
2. Click on Tools, then Filters.
3. Place a Checkmark in the "Incoming" box, and then click NEW in the lower left corner.
4. Click on the button to open a dropdown menu by where it says: "Header".
5. Select "Any Recipient"
6. Scroll down in the box underneath and click on: doesn't contain.
7. Next to where it says "doesn't contain" put your e-mail address, such as yourname@yourdomain.com.
8. Now move down the screen to where it says: "Action". You can program up to 5 actions that Eudora will perform if it detects an incoming message that meets the criteria you have just programmed into the filter. Let's program it to automatically transfer these messages into your Junk Email mailbox.
9. Click on Action, then select "Transfer To". Click on the Grey bar and then select the Junk Email mailbox.
10. We recommend putting and keeping this filter at the very end of your filter list. That way, if you use "Skip Rest" on any or all of the filters above this one, the message will not get to the spam filter. Otherwise, a message can be filtered from "In" to "Friends" (for example), and then from "Friends" to "Hold for Review".
11. The last thing you'll need to do is save this filter. At the top of the screen, click on File and then Save. Now your Incoming mail will be filtered for any messages that don't contain your personal E-mail address in the To field of the message. Those messages will automatically be transferred to your Junk Email mailbox without even seeing them.
Note: It might be a good idea to check this mail box every once in awhile in case you have some E-mail not addressed to you from news groups or any mailing lists you have subscribed to.