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District Office is adding a SPAM filter to our Email gateway to help provide a
way to identify junk mail. Outlook Rules Wizard can be used to manage e-mail.
Messages that you receive can be automatically routed from your Inbox to a folder
of your choosing.
Create a subfolder in your Inbox to receive the filtered e-mail. For this example,
we are routing e-mail that might be unsolicited commercial e-mail (SPAM), and have
created a folder called Suspected SPAM.
After you have your folder created, choose "Tools" from the Outlook menu,
then "Rules Wizard," and select New.
Select "Start from a blank rule" and "Check messages when they arrive." Click Next.
For conditions, you only need to check "With specific words in the subject."
In the Rule description box, click on "specific words."
Enter the text you would like to use as your filter in the "Specify words or phrases" box and
click the Add button. Shown here is an example of what you would type to filter suspected SPAM,
as rated by the SpamAssassin(tm) program that Los Rios has implemented. Some legitimate messages
could be moved to the SPAM folder, So you will need to check it periodically. Click OK and then Next.
Choose "move it to the specified folder" and click on "specified" in the
Rules description pane.
In the "Choose a folder" box, highlight the folder you created for this purpose
and click OK.
Click Next.
No changes (exceptions) are necessary in the "Add any exceptions" box. Click Next.
Name the rule to your liking (or accept the default name), make sure "Turn on this rule"
is checked and click Finish.
Click OK to finish the process.
With this rule active, messages that meet the criteria you've set will be moved out of
your Inbox. You can then check those messages periodically to see if any are actually
ones you would like to see.
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