| Filters
- How to Stop Spam
Using the filters in Outlook Express will ease a great
deal of unwanted Spam mail. Filters or Message Rules
as Outlook Express calls them, will basically read over
emails before putting them in the inbox and they'll do
any number of specific tasks from blocking unwanted emails
to organizing emails into various folders. This
is one of the most under utilized features in Outlook
Express, but would save you a great deal of time and trouble
if you wrote just a few basic filters. So, lets
get started:
Step One:
Go to Tools--->Message
Rules--->Mail and Click. See above Picture.
Step Two:
Here is the
box that will open up when you click. This is the
heart of all the various filters you can create.
I won't go into every filter, because there are just too
many filters. The best way to create the filters
is poke around a little and see which filters do what.
As an example, if you clicked in 1. Where the From
Line Contains People. You could make a specific
rule to prevent certain email address or names from coming
in...in the second box you would tell it what to do with
that mail...anything from moving it to a folder or deleting
it right away.
Step Three:
Once you
have clicked okay, the new rule will appear in Message
Rules. Here you can add more rules, modify existing
rules or remove the rules altogether.
There you
have it, its a very simple process to create rules for
your email account. You can do anything from setting
up a filter that will put all the emails from a specific
person to a folder with their name, or you could block
porn spam ads, spam ads, or any other unsolicited emails. |
