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4 Apr
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Posted by Greg Nicholl
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Spam email is such an intrusion into our lives. We don't want it, we didn't ask for it and yet it comes right into our home to bother us. Some spam is very offensive. Some spam is X rated and children might be looking over our shoulder. Spam can take a lot of time to deal with and can seem almost overwhelming. Most of the software programs that we use to read email and many of the Internet Service Providers offer effective ways to deal with spam. The catch is that it requires a small investment of time and study to learn to apply the spam filers that we have within our reach.
There are two ways to filter spam mail: at the server and at our desktop email program. Since I have previously written on setting up spam filters at the server level, on a hosting account, I will touch on spam filtering that works within POP email accounts.
Setting Up Filtering With Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook 2010 has a very simple spam filtering system which will help reduce the amount of spam you have to deal with. To begin right click on the spam mail in question. Go the option entitled "Junk" near the bottom of the menu. You will see options to "Block Sender," "Never Block Sender," "Never Block Sender's Domain" and so forth. If you choose Block Sender you will never get email from anyone at that address again.
There is an option called "Junk Email Options." If you choose that you will get a wizard in which you can turn on spam filtering for your account. Your choices are No Filtering, Low Filtering, High Filtering, and Safe Lists Only. Under the Low and High Filtering options there is a line which describes the meaning of each option. "Safe Lists Only" means that you will need to manually form a Safe List. Then only the email from addresses on your Safe List arrives at your inbox. All other mail is then deleted. At the top of the Junk Email Options wizard is a tab called Blocked Senders. The Blocked Senders option prevents mail from all blocked addresses being delivered to your inbox and routes it to the Trash Bin. You can fill the Blocked Senders list by right clicking on any unwanted email and choosing to block that sender. Click to continue »
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17 Feb
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Posted by Greg Nicholl
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As Internet users we have to deal with the problem of spam Email. Most people already have effective tools for dealing with spam. It is a simple matter to set up spam filters which will protect us from all of that unwanted spam.
All Internet users should fall into one of two categories. It is likely that we either have an ISP which offers spam filters or we have an online hosting service which offers them. We shall take a look at the spam filters that are offered by online hosting services. I speak of those included in the cPanel of your hosting account. Most are probably very similar.
cPanel Offers Good Spam Filters
The cPanel will have a section entitled Mail. Under the Mail section chose the option "User Level Filtering". This option will allow you to set filters for each email account that is set up under your hosting account. Choose the partcular account that you want to set filters for. Click the button at the top which is called "Create A New Filter". When you do this you will get a page which looks much like a web form. At the top name the filter. You may set up a number of rules (think conditions) which oif met, will allow the server to deal with your spam mail. In my instance, Click to continue »
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| Category: Spam Prevention | Tag: Spam Assassin, Spam Blocker, Spam Filters, Spam Prevention |
