Outlook 2000 SpamAssassin Configuration

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If SpamAssassin is set up on your mail server (like mail.your-company-name.tld); you can set up your mail client to filter out spam messages, based on headers that SpamAssassin adds to each message.

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Outlook 2000 Mail Client Configuration

IMPORTANT: Please keep in mind that non-spam messages could end up in this folder and spam messages could end up in your Inbox.

1. Launch Outlook 2000

2. Select Tools ->Message Rules -> Mail...

   

3. Click New

   

4. Put a check in the condition: with specific words in the message header

   

5. Under Rule description, click on specific words

6. Enter the text X-Spam-Flag: YES (those words exactly, case sensitive) and click OK

   

7. Now place a check next to move it to the specified folder

   
   

8. Under Rule description, click on the word specified

   

9. Left click (once) on Inbox, then click on the New.. button to create a new folder

   

10. Enter Spam in the name field, highlight Inbox and click OK

    

11. Click No if prompted about adding a shortcut to this folder

    

12. Click on the "plus" sign in front of the Inbox icon, highlight the Spam folder and click OK

    

13. Click Finish

    

14. Click OK

    

15. New (marked) messages will now be saved into the folder Spam. You can view these messages by opening (double-clicking) the folder called Spam

IMPORTANT: Please keep in mind that non-spam messages could end up in this folder and spam messages could end up in your Inbox.

To help us improve the accuracy of the SPAM filter please keep all spam in the SPAM folder, if you have any mail that was incorrectly identified as SPAM please move it into the Inbox.

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