Mozilla Mail/ Netscape7 Mail
Last modified: October 13 2005 11:39 am

This guide was created using Mozilla Mail 1.5, but can also be used to setup Netscape 7 Mail. Older versions of these programs may work although screen shots may differ slightly.

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 Mozilla Mail or Netscape7 Mail

1)Select your e-mail account

2)From the menu bar, click the 'File'
3)Highlight 'New'
4)Select 'Folder' from the list

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

7)Click the 'Create message filters' link

8)Make sure you are creating the rule on the correct account
9)Click the [New...] button

10)Enter a filter a name i.e. Spam
11)Click the [Arrow] and
12)Select 'Customize...'

13)Type in 'X-SpamDetect'
14)Click the [Add] button
15)Click the [OK] button to continue

16)Click the [Arrow] and
17)Select 'X-SpamDetect' from the drop list
18)Type in '****'
19)Make sure 'Move to folder' is selected, if not select it by clicking the [Arrow] to find it

20)Click the [Arrow] then highlight your e-mail account
21)Select 'Junk Mail' from the list
22)Click the [OK] button to continue

23)Click to highlight the filter name
24)Click the [Run Now] button
25)Click the [Close] 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.