Solution:
WARNING: The Office of Information Technology supports only the configuration of Outlook for the specific purpose of connecting to our servers. For problems or questions concerning its use, please consult the application's Help menu or Microsoft's web site.
Outlook 2003 has built-in "Junk Mail" filtering to help eliminate spam, but you may choose to augment or replace this with Georgia Tech's custom spam rating header. These instructions assume that you have already created a folder named "Junk" for storing spam.
- Start Outlook
- On the Tools menu, choose Rules and Alerts…
- Click
- Choose Start from a blank rule, then choose Check messages when they arrive and click
- On the list of conditions, check the box next to "with specific words in the message header"
- Click on "specific words" in Step 2
- Enter "X-GT-Spam-Rating: #####" and click (this will apply to any message with a spam rating of 50 or higher)
- Click
- On the list of actions, check the box next to "move it to the specified folder"
- Click on "specified" in Step 2
- Choose the Junk folder under your Spectrum account and click
- The window should now look something like this
- Click then click again
- Enter a descriptive name, such as "GT Spam Filter", for this rule
- Click
All incoming mail will now be processed against this rule. You will need to periodically check your Spam/Junk folder to delete spam and ensure that no legitimate mail was incorrectly identified as spam.
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