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A. Setup a filter to store spam email on a different mailbox. (recommended)

To setup a spam filter to store spam email, you need to:

1.Create a Mailbox and name it: spam.

To create a Mailbox, enter the name of the mailbox, in this example we call it spam. Click on the Create Mailbox button to create the mailbox.

Picture 2.

2. Add a Rule.

To add a rule, you will need to click on the Rules link along the top of the window. The window shown in Picture 2 will open. To add a rule, follow the following steps:
Step 1. Enter filterspam the name of the rule.
Step 2. Click on the Add Rule button. Once you click on the Add Rule button, the window shown in Picture 3 will show.

Picture 3

3. Edit a Rule

To create the rule, click on the Edit link shown in Picture3 and the window shown in Picture 4 will open.

Picture 4

4. Create the filter spam rule by selecting items from the menu. Follow Picture 4 above as your guide.

Step 1. Select: Header Field from the popup menu in Data field.

Step 1a. select "is"from the Operation field.

Step 2. Enter exactly: X-Spam-Flag: YES in the Parameter field.
(notice a space before the word YES and capitalization of the words)

Step 3. Select Stored in from the popup menu under Action header.

Step 4. Enter spam in the Parameters field.

Step 5. Click on the Update button to save your changes.

Picture 5.

As soon as the Update button is clicked, the window shown in Picture 5 will open. Continue your setup by following steps below:
Step 6. Select Discard from the popup menu under Action header
Step 7. Click on the Update button to save your changes

5. Logout by clicking on the Logout option and quit from your browser.

6. Refresh your Mailbox list.

In order for the spam mailbox to show up on your Mailbox list you will need to refresh your mailbox list.
Run your mail client. Depending on the mail client the steps to refresh the mailbox list is different.

For Outlook Express 5 on MS Windows,
-you will need to click using using your right mouse button on dragon.rutgers.edu mailbox
-Select Reset List from the popup Menu to reset the mailboxes.

For Netscape 4.x,
-Click on the File Menu and select Subscribe.
-A Window will open with a list of all your mailboxes. Click on the Refresh List button.
-A list of all your mailboxes will show up. Check on spam to subscribe the spam mailbox.

For Outlook Express on the Macintosh
- Go to the View menu and select Get Complete Folder List

For Entourage for the Macintosh,
-Click on the dragon.rutgers.edu mailbox. A list of your mailboxes will open on the right window pane.
-Click on the Update List button to update your mailboxes list.
-Click on Spam in your mailbox list and click the Subscribe button.

If you are using other programs, please look at your online help or manual to find out how to reset the Mailbox list.

7. Testing your spam filter

To test the filter above, simply forward yourself an email you think is spam. When the email is classified as spam, it will be stored into your spam folder.


B. Setup a filter to delete spam email immediately.

This option is not recommended. Support staff WILL NOT be able to recover email deleted by this filter. If you still prefer to delete all spam mail immediately, follow steps below:

1. Follow choice A step 1 to 3.
1a. Create the filter spam rule by selecting items from the menu. Follow Picture 4 above as your guide.

2. Make sure to change your filter spam rule as shown in Picture 6 below.

Picture 6.

Step 1. Select: Header Field from the popup menu in Data field

Step 1a. select "is"from the Operation field.

Step 2. Enter exactly: X-Spam-Flag: YES in the Parameter field.

(notice a space before the word YES and capitalization of the words)

Step 3. Select Discard from the popup menu under Action header

Step 4. Click on the Update button to save your changes

Header Field is X-Spam-Flag: YES
Store in  spam
Discard 

5. Logout by clicking on the Logout option.

Testing your spam filter

To test the filter above, simply create a new mail containing this string:

XJS*C4JDBQADN1.NSBN3*2IDNEN*GTUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-UBE-TEST-EMAIL*C.34X

and send it to yourself. This mail will arrive as spam. When the email is classified as spam, you will not see the forwarded email arriving in your Inbox.

There are situation when you just DO NOT want certain email address to be classified as spam no matter what the reason. For this situation, you should modify the spam rule above to look like below:

To prevent email from certain email address be stored in your spam folder, simply modify the above rules to look like

Header Field is X-Spam-Flag: YES
From not in *username1@hostname1.com*, *username2@hostname2.com*
Store in  spam
Discard 

There are situation when you just want certain email address to be classified as spam no matter what the reason.

To always store email from certain email address into your spam folder, you simply create a new rule like below.

From is in *username1@hostname1.com*, *username2@hostname2.com*
Store in  spam
Discard 

Many users do not speak Russian, Chinese or Arabic language but there are so many spam that come in different languages which should automatically be tagged as spam. At the same time, some users would like to see certain languages be exempt from spam check. Luckily, there is a way to tag email based on the language it is written on.

To implement language tagging, you need only to modify step 1a and step 2 above.
For example:

To have all Spam, Rusian and Chinese email routed to your spam folder, make a rule to look like below:

Header Field in X-Spam-Flag: YES, X-Spam-Language: *ru*, X-Spam-Language: *zh*
Store in  spam
Discard 

To have all Greeks and Hebrew email to always go to your INBOX folder, make a rule to look like below:

Header Field is X-Spam-Flag: YES
Header Field  not in  X-Spam-Language: *el*, X-Spam-Language: *he*
Store in  spam
Discard 

If you would to filter other languages, simply add more of the header and separate then by a comma. Note: the asterisk(*) is required to detect the occurance of the language in cases of multiple languages are detected in one email.

Here are a list of other languages:

af - Afrikaans
am - Amharic
ar - Arabic
be - Byelorussian
bg - Bulgarian
bs - Bosnian
ca - Catalan
cs - Czech
cy - Welsh
da - Danish
de - German
el - Greek
en - English
eo - Esperanto
es - Spanish
et - Estonian
eu - Basque
fa - Persian
fi - Finnish
fr - French
fy - Frisian
ga - Irish Gaelic
gd - Scottish Gaelic
he - Hebrew
hi - Hindi
hr - Croatian
hu - Hungarian
hy - Armenian
id - Indonesian
is - Icelandic
it - Italian
ja - Japanese
ka - Georgian

ko - Korean
la - Latin
lt - Lithuanian
lv - Latvian
mr - Marathi
ms - Malay
ne - Nepali
nl - Dutch
no - Norwegian
pl - Polish
pt - Portuguese
qu - Quechua
rm - Rhaeto-Romance
ro - Romanian
ru - Russian
sa - Sanskrit
sco - Scots
sk - Slovak
sl - Slovenian
sq - Albanian
sr - Serbian
sv - Swedish
sw - Swahili
ta - Tamil
th - Thai
tl - Tagalog
tr - Turkish
uk - Ukrainian
vi - Vietnamese
yi - Yiddish
zh - Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified)
zh.big5 - Chinese (Traditional only)
zh.gb2312 - Chinese (Simplified only)

Further Readings

If you are using CS unix system as your mail server, there are separate instructions on how to create a rule. Please see How to Get Rid of Spam Email.