Block Spam E-mail - Using Outlook

This is a detailed document on how to set up Outlook to block unwanted e-mail from reaching your inbox.
Blocking Spam Email Using Pine And Blocking Spam With Eudora

The university system automatically flags junk mail. You can use this flag to keep those messages from even coming to your inbox.

• Open Outlook
  • If Outlook is not configured please see Configuring Outlook under Windows
• Select Tools from the menu
• Select Rules Wizard
  
  
  
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• Click NEW
  
  
  
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• Choose "Check messages when they arrive" from the options and click next
  
  
  
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• Choose "with specific words in the message header"
  
  
  
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• Under Rule Description the words "specific words" are underlined, click on these.
• What you will do next depends on the degree of control you want over your mail filtering:
  • For simple spam filtering, type Gauge in the pop up box. Click next.
  • For more exact filtering, you can explicitly set Outlook to delete messages which have a certain probability of being junk mail. If you look at the actual header put on junk mail, it is something similar to the following: X-Perlmx-Spam: Gauge=XXXXXXII, Probability=62%, ... The "Gauge" number and the probability numbers are the same, showing the probability that the mail is spam. However, note that the gauge number is put with an X for each probability level of 10. That means, if you want just to delete messages with 90% or greater probability of being spam, you can search for the word Gauge=XXXXXXXXX instead of simply for the word Gauge.
    
    
  
  
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• In the next box you can choose what you want to do with these messages, the most popular choice is 'delete it'. Click next.
  
  
  
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• Another choice is to move the Spam Mail to another folder.
  
  
  
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  If you don't already have a Spam Mail folder, click new.
  
  
  
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  Whatever folder is highlighted in the bottom window is where the folder will be created.
  
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  Click ok.
  
  
• The next screen is an optional exception. (You don't have to choose one.) Click next.
• Type a name for the rule: Ex: Spam Filter. Click Finish.