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Protecting Your Mailbox from Spam

To switch on spam filtering:

  1. On your Home page, click the Mailbox icon in the Tools group.
  2. Select the Enable spam filtering check box and click OK.

Now all the incoming mail will be filtered on the server side. By default, spam filter does not delete spam mail, it only adds the "X-Spam-Flag: YES" and "X-Spam-Status: Yes" headers to the message, and "*****SPAM*****" text string to the beginning of Subject line of each message recognized as spam. These settings are fine if you prefer to filter mail with a filtering program installed on your local computer – once mail has been retrieved from your mailbox.

If you rely entirely on the spam filter installed on the server, you may configure it so as to automatically delete the suspicious messages as they come. To configure the spam filter, follow the instructions below.

To configure the spam filter:

  1. On your Home page, click the Spam Filter icon in the Tools group.
  2. Configure the following settings as desired:
  3. To save your changes, click Set.
  4. If you do not want to receive e-mail from specific senders, add their e-mail addresses to the spam filter's black list.
  5. If you want to be sure that you will not miss e-mail from specific senders, add their e-mail addresses to the spam filter's white list.

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Improving Accuracy of Spam Detection