Outlook Express

If you are a GN user, are running Outlook Express (or Windows Mail) and want to use a spam filter.

1) First contact support@gn.apc.org to ensure a marker like “?spam” or “[SPAM]” is put into the subject line of suspected spam. (This may also detect some ‘backscatter’ from forged domains as ‘?spambounce’) If you are downloading your mail from GreenNet via POP or IMAP, you will probably see “?spam” on spam-like messages.

2) Then, in the main Outlook Express window, go to the Tools menu and select ‘Message Rules’, and then ‘Mail’. Then click on ‘New’ to create a new rule.

3) Tick ‘Where the subject line contains specific words’ and ‘move it to the specified folder’. Then click on the blue link ‘contains specific words’, type “?SPAM” into the box, and click ‘Add’ and ‘OK’.

4) Finally, click on ‘specified’. You can either create a new folder here for probable spam, or just select ‘Deleted Items’. Once you have selected the folder, click OK three times to confirm.

5) Check for new mail, and see if spam is going to the intended folder.

Windows Mail (the Windows Vista email program) has its own, rather opaque antispam system, but the above should work, in combination with a Windows Mail “Low protection level”.

Please see Filtering out spam for an overview and other email programs.

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