How to setup filter’s to redirect SPAM in Netscape Mail (version 7):
If you have noticed that all of the useless emails (Spam) that you receive have started
coming with the word {Spam?} in the subject, then your email administrator has
implemented a Spam Filter. Spam filters are better than Spam blockers because they
allow you to determine what to do with the Spam after it is tagged. A Spam blocker will
simply discard anything that looks like spam, regardless of the fact that you may have
wanted to see it.
So, now that your Spam is being tagged, how does that help you? That’s where this
tutorial will help. If you are using Netscape Mail (version 7), then this procedure will
show you how to automatically move all those Spam emails out of your Inbox so that you
don’t have to sort through them when reading your mail. This procedure is very similar
for other versions of Netscape Mail, but it has not been tested so it may or may not work
for those cases. Separate tutorials have been prepared for Outlook 2000/XP and Outlook
Express if you use one of those programs instead.
This tutorial will help you configure Outlook Express to automatically move spam-
tagged email messages to a separate folder, and out of your way. If you’d like, you can
configure it to delete these Spam emails as soon as you get them, but I would not
recommend this because no Spam Filter is perfect and from time to time, you could end
up deleting a good email.
Start Here:
1) Open Netscape Mail and click on the ‘Tools’ Menu.
2) Select ‘Message Filters’
*Note: In earlier versions of Netscape, this function is located under the ‘Edit’ Menu.
3) A new window will open, displaying your current filters. Click on ‘New…’ to
add a new one.
4) A new window will open, displaying the options for creating a new filter rule.
Change the filter name to Spam.
5) Select the button next to ‘Match any of the following’.
6) Just below that button, select ‘Subject’, ‘Contains’, and then type in {Spam?} in
the field to the right of ‘Contains’. (see below for what this should look like).
7) Make sure your window looks like the one above, then click on the ‘New
folder…’ button.
8) This will open a new window. Type in Spam as the name of the new folder, then
use the drop-down box to select ‘Inbox’ under your account. (You’ll have to
navigate through the drop-down box to find Inbox.)
9) See the picture below to make sure it matches (except for the james@asc.edu part
of course), then click the ‘OK’ button.
10) Now you’re back at the previous window that should look something like this:
11) Click on the ‘OK’ button to finish creating the filter rule. That will take you back
to the list of Message Filters.
12) Make sure the check mark is present in the ‘Enabled’ box, then click ‘OK’ to exit
the Message Filters.
13) That’s it, you’re finished. Notice the new ‘Spam’ folder on the left under ‘Inbox’.
You may want to check this folder every now and then to delete all the Spam in it.
Otherwise it will just keep growing and waste a lot of space on your computer.