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Configure SPAM Filtering


Most email clients support filters that allows you to set specific automatic actions based on varying attributes of an email, such as text in the subject line or the email being received from a particular email address. The UConn email servers automatically tag most SPAM messages by prefixing the email's subject line with {SPAM?}. This means that the UConn email server noticed several discrepancies in the email and so it believes that it is a SPAM message. However, there are times when it could falsely identify an email as SPAM and this is the reason that UITS does not automatically delete these messages, but the trouble of dealing with this amount of junk mail is much more troublesome than with losing the occassional newsletter.

1. Start Outlook
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    Open Microsoft Outlook as you normally would and view the contents of your Inbox.

 

2. Rules and Alerts
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    Access the dropdown for "Tools" and then select "Rules and Alerts".

    NOTE: You may need to press the arrow at the bottom of the dropdown in order to reveal options that you have not already used in that menu.

 

3. Start a New Rule
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    Press the "New Rule" button.

 

4. Rules Wizard
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    From the Rules Wizard that pops up select "Start from a blank rule", select "Check messages when they arrive" and press the next button.

 

5. Filter by Subject
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    From the conditions page tick the checkbox for "with specific words in the subject". And in the bottom pane of that window click on the "specific words" text that should be highlighted.

 

6. Filter out {SPAM?}
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    In the popup box that appears from that enter:
{SPAM?}
And press the Add button and then press the Ok button.

 

7. Next Page
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    Click on the next button.

 

8. Select Delete It
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    On the next page of the wizard tick the checkbox for "delete it ".

    NOTE: Make sure that you use the option for "delete it" as it is considered a server-side rule. When this rule is used the mail will be filtered out and deleted before your email client even attempts to see it. You can alternatively use the rule for "move it to the specified folder" if you wish to occassionally look through the filtered SPAM messages.

 

9. Next Page
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    Click on the next button .

 

10. Finish
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    Make sure that the option for "Turn on this rule" is checked and press the Finish button. Then press OK on any open Windows.
      
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215 Glenbrook Road, CLAS Building
Unit 4158, Suite 345
Storrs, CT 06269-4158
Phone: 860-486-0478
geoffrey.meigs@uconn.edu