SPAM Filter Setup Procedures

 Outlook Express 4.0 - Inbox Assistant 

Outlook Express 4.0 allows you to control the destination of incoming email based on several different user defined criteria which are implemented as rules in the "Inbox Assistant" utility. One of these rules takes all  messages with a certain word or words in the subject line and sends them to a specified folder. You can use this filter to take all messages with [SPAM?] in the subject line and send them to a SPAM folder that you create. This will help keep your Inbox less cluttered with unwanted email. You can check your SPAM folder once a day or so to quickly see if there are any emails of interest to you. Then you can clean out this folder by deleting all the emails.

Setting up the Inbox Assistant to filter SPAM 

1. First you need to create a new folder called "SPAM". In the upper left hand corner of Outlook Express click on File, then New Folder.

Type in the word : SPAM and click on OK.

3. At the top, click on Tools, then Inbox Assistant as shown below:

2. Click on Add in the lower left hand corner.

3. At the top put a check next to "All messages". In the box to the right of "Subject", type in :  [SPAM?] .Under "Perform the following action", put a check mark to the left of "Move To". Click on "Folder" and select the SPAM folder.

Click on OK to close this window. Click on OK again to finish.