Filtering Spam with Your Email Program
Note
You have the option of filtering or deleting spam using Webmail filtering. A Webmail filter creates filters on the server that are applied as the messages are delivered to your mailbox. This allows you to create filters in one place instead of defining them within each email program you use.
Overview
If you choose not to use Webmail filtering, you can use the built-in filtering functions of your own email program. All you have to do is tell your email program to look for the "[SPAM:###]" tags applied by Stanford's Anti-Spam program and, when it finds them, to filter them into a separate folder or delete them altogether. Instructions that apply to most of the major email programs at Stanford can be found below.
Email Program Spam Filtering
- Eudora: Windows | Mac
- Instructions for configuring Eudora 6
- Mac OS X Mail
- Instructions for configuring Mac OS X Mail versions 10.3 and 10.4
- Outlook Express / Windows Mail
- Instructions for configuring Outlook Express and Windows Mail
(for Windows Vista).
[Note: This only works for POP mail accounts.
It does not work for IMAP or HTTP]
- Outlook
- Instructions for configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 for Windows
- Procmail
- For use with Unix mail clients
- Thunderbird: Windows | Mac
- Instructions for configuring Thunderbird
- Webmail
- Instructions for configuring Webmail. [Note: Webmail filters are always running in the background and remove spam before it reaches your email Inbox — even when you are not running Webmail.]
