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Setting up Spam Filter rules with MS Outlook

  1. Open Outlook
  2. Click on or select "Inbox" in your mail folders (Note: you may have to turn on folder view if it is not already on to select the Inbox folder)
  3. Right click with your mouse on the Inbox folder and from the popup menu select "New Folder"
  4. For the name of the folder enter "Spam Mail" and click ok
  5. From the Outlook menu list click on "Tools" and select "Rules Wizard" or "Rules and Alerts"
  6. Click on "New"
  7. Select "Start from a blank rule"
  8. Highlight "Check messages when they arrive"
  9. Click "Next"
  10. Scroll down and look for the line "With specific words in the messsage header" and place a check in the box to the left of it.
  11. In the box below, click on the underlined words "specific words"
  12. A new option box will open, enter "X-Spam-Level: *****" and click the Add button (be sure you leave a blank space between the : and the first *)
  13. Click "Next"
  14. Look for "Move to a folder named" and place a check in the box to its left
  15. In the space below, click on the underlined word "specified"
  16. From the folder list, scroll to and select the folder Spam Mail, the folder you set up in steps 3 and 4.
  17. Click "Next" and "Next" again and for the name of the rule enter "UAB Spam Marking"
  18. Click "Finish"
    • Note: Make sure that there is a check in the box to the left of the rule you just created and click OK.
That's it! Monitor the Spam Mail folder so that you can clean it out occasionally and ensure that some mail hasn't made it there accidentally. You control the level of spam filtering by adjusting the number of stars in your filter.

If spam is still getting through, you can change the "X-Spam-Level: *****" to X-Spam-Level: ****" and so on until you have reached the desired level of filtering.
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