Spam Filtering

One of the common approaches to dealing with unwanted email, or "spam" is to filter emails to look for suspicious characteristics and mark them as spam or move them into a spam folder so you can check them later to make sure they have been correctly diagnosed as spam, and if so, delete them. Here are instructions on how to set up your email in our webmail and in Microsoft Outlook so that messages automatically marked as spam are moved out of your inbox and into a spam folder, so you don't have to sort through them every time you check your mail.

Note: This is all specific to Page Progressive. Our spam filter renames the subject of suspected spam emails to *****SPAM***** so that you can easily identify it as spam. The spam filter will most likely not catch 100% of your spam and may sometimes misidentify a legitimate email as spam, so it's important to check your spam folder periodically.

Webmail Filtering

1. Log into our webmail at http://www.pageprogressive.com/webmail/
2. From the Mail screen, click on the "Folders" icon:
   
3. Click on the dropdown "Choose Action" field and choose "Create Folder."
   
4. Type in the name of the folder you want to move spam to, IE "SPAM", and click "OK."
   
5. Click on the "Filters" icon at the top of the page. Then click on the "New Rule" button.
   
6. Fill out the filter rule as shown below, delivering items containing *****SPAM***** in the subject to the SPAM folder. Then click on the "Save" button.
   
7. Then click on the "Mail" icon at the top or on the left to return to your inbox.
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8. Then click on the "Options" icon at the top.
   
9. Then you will see a section on the right called "Filters." Click on the "Filters" link.
   
10. Check off the "Apply filter rules whenever INBOX is displayed?" box to make your filters automatically run anytime you view your inbox.
    
11. Click on the "Save Options" button and you are done!

1. Note: If you don't have a mail folder called "Junk E-mail" or something similar, you'll need to create that folder before continuing.
   
   First open up Outlook (Not Outlook Express) and from the "Tools" menu select "Rules and Alerts." Then click on the "New Rule" button.
   
2. Then choose "Move messages with specific words in the subject to a folder" and click "Next."
   
3. At the bottom of the window, click on the "specific words" link.
   
4. Type in *****SPAM***** and click on "Add" and then click "OK."
   
5. Then click the "specified" link at the bottom to tell Outlook what folder to move the spam to.
   
6. Choose the "Junk E-mail" folder and click "OK."
   
7. Click the "Finish" button and then click the "OK" button the next screen and you are done!

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