Eudora
Last modified: October 13 2005 11:39 am
Please ensure that your e-mail account is working correctly before using this guide. If you are able to send and receive e-mails without any problems, you should not have any difficulties using this guide to filter junk mails into a 'Junk Mail' folder.

To begin open Eudora 

1)Highlight an e-mail in your inbox
2)From the menu bar, click the 'Mailbox' menu
3)Select 'New...' from the drop list

4)Enter a folder name i.e. Junk Mail
5)Click the [OK] button to continue

6)From the menu bar, click the 'Special' menu
7)Select 'Make Filter...' from the drop list

8)Click the [Add Details] button to continue

9)Click the [New] button
10)Type in 'X-SpamDetect'
11)Type in '****'
12)Click the [Arrows] and
13)Select 'Transfer To' from the drop list

The message box above will appear after you have done step 13)

14)From the menu bar, click the 'Transfer' menu
15)Select 'Junk Mail' from the drop list

16)Click the [Close] button

17)Click the [Save] button

Your mail filter should now be in place. You should find that any filtered junk mail has been filtered out into the "Junk Mail" folder.

The spam filter by default defines anything with a "spam score" of 4 or more as probably spam. You can personalise the filtering rules to be more or less restrictive by increasing or decreasing the number of asterisks after 'X-SpamDetect:'.

For example, if you wanted to consider anything with a score of 3 or more to be spam, the rule would look like: 'X-SpamDetect: ***'. Decreasing the number of asterisks will result in classifying more e-mails as spam. You may need to check your spam folder more carefully for non-spam e-mails that might have been classified as spam. If you wanted to rate anything with a score of 8 or greater as spam, the rule would look like: 'X-SpamDetect: ********'. Increasing the number of asterisks may result in fewer filtered e-mails being classified as spam and more potential spam staying in your Inbox.