Cruzio Setup Docs » How to Set Up Spam Filters for Website Basic, Website Plus and Website Premium Mailboxes for Windows

These instructions assume that you have Cruzio Web and Domain hosting. If you purchased your Web and Domain account before July 2006, you have Cruzio Classic hosting, which do not filter junk mail in this way.

Spam filtering is automatically enabled for every mailbox, and when a message is marked as spam by the software, the subject line will include the text ***SPAM***. Follow these simple rules to route these messages to a junk folder and keep them out of your inbox.

» Eudora
» Netscape 7.2
» Outlook for Microsoft Office
» Outlook Express
» Thunderbird

Eudora

1) Launch Eudora and open an incoming or outgoing message. If this isn't done, the Make Filter option (in step 2) won"t show up.

2) From the "Special" menu, choose "Make Filter".

3) Under "Match Conditions" select "Incoming", "Manual" and "Subject".

4) In the text field beside "Subject", type: ***SPAM***

5) Under "Action", choose "Transfer to Existing Mailbox" and select the adjacent button.

6) Choose "Junk" from the dropdown menu options and select "Create Filter".

Netscape

1) Launch Netscape and choose "Window" from the menu at the top, then "Mail and Newsgroups".

2) Select "Tools", then choose "Message Filters" from the dropdown menu.

3) Select the "New" button in the upper right corner.

4) Enter "Junk Mail" in the "Filter Name" box and select "Match any of the following".

5) From the dropdown menus, choose "Subject" and "contains", then enter ***SPAM***.

6) Check "Move to folder" and choose the email address you want filtered from the dropdown menu under "Default on mail". Specify a folder in which to store the junk mail. You can create one by choosing "New folder" and typing name "Junk Mail" when prompted.

Outlook for Microsoft Office

1) Launch Outlook and select "Rules & Alerts" from the "Tools" menu at the top of the window.

2) Select "New" and type "Start creating a rule from a template".

3) Under "Step 1", choose "Move messages with specific words in the subject to a folder"

4) Under "Step 2: Edit the rule description", select the first underlined value and type: ***SPAM***

5) Select the second underlined value and type: Junk E-mail

6) Note: Some versions of Outlook don"t have a "Junk E-Mail" folder. To create one, select "New Folder" from the menu bar at the top of the screen and type in "Junk E-mail", select "OK" .

7) Select "Next" and "Next" and in the following window, select "Turn on this rule".

8) To complete the setup, select "Finish", "Apply" and "Ok".

Outlook Express

1) Launch Outlook Express and and mouse-over "Message Rules" in the "Tools" menu at the top of the window. Choose "Mail".

2) In the "New Mail Rule" window, select "Where the Subject line contains specific words" in the the first section.

3) In the second section, select "Move it to the specified folder" and select "contains specific words" in the third section.

4) A new window will open called "Type specific words". Type ***SPAM*** and select "Add" and the "OK".

5) Back in the "New Mail Rule" window select "specified" in section 3. A new window will open called "Move". Highlight "local folders" and select "New Folder".

6) Type "Spam" without the quotes and "OK". You should now see the new folder listed in the "Move" window. Select "OK".

7) Under section four, type the name of the rule you just created, for example: "My spam rule" and select "OK" and again to close the Window.

Thunderbird

1) Launch Thunderbird and choose "Message Filters" from the "Tools" menu at the top of the window.

2) In the window that opens up click on the "New" button and in the "Filter name" field type "Junk Mail".

3) Under "For incoming messages that:", select "Match any of the following" and choose "Subject" and "contains" from the dropdown menus.

4) Type ***SPAM*** into the blank field next to "Contains".

5) Under "Perform these actions:" select "Move to folder:" and choose "Junk" from the "Local Folders" dropdown menu and select "OK".

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