Creating a spam folder

Before making any filters, you need to create a folder to hold spam until you have a chance to review its contents. While it is possible to create a filter that simply deletes anything that may be spam, this is not recommended as you may inadvertently delete mail you want to keep. Instead, you will filter the probable spam into a separate folder and review or delete it at your convenience.

Click the Communicator menu and choose Messenger to open the mail portion of Netscape.
	From the main Messenger mail window, select the "File" menu, then click "New Folder..."

A new window will open. Type "Spam" (without quotes) into the space provided. "Local Mail" should appear in the "Create this folder as a subfolder of:" line. Click Create

Creating a "route" spam filter

Now that you have created your spam folder, you may make the filter that will catch a broad array of spam and send it to that folder. This is a filter that catches email containing anti-spam headers which Internet Channel's mail server has added based on the route the message has followed through the Internet on its path to you.
 
 

Open Netscape's filter window by clicking the Edit menu and selecting "Message Filters".

Make sure the drop-down menu at the top of the Message Filters window reads "Inbox". Click the New button.

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In the Filter Action section, select "Customize..." from the first drop-down menu.

 

Click the New button.

Copy this "X-Spam-Flag: " (without the quotes), paste to header pop-up box (please make sure that you have ":" at the end) and Click OK.

 

The following steps refer to the image at the left: Choose "X-Spam-Flag: " from the first drop-down menu in the Filter Action section at the bottom. Choose "Contains" from the next drop-down menu. Type "YES" (without the quotes) into the next line. Choose "Move to folder" from the drop-down menu. Select the Spam folder you created earlier form the next drop-down menu. Close the Message Filters window and save the changes when prompted to do so.

Bypassing filters

It is possible that a filter may move legitimate mail into your spam mailbox. Let's assume that something about mail from your Eudora News mailing list triggers the Internet Channel mail server to add anti-spam headers to those messages. To bypass the filter, create an exception:

Open Message Rules window as instructed above. Then select the filter you want to modify and click the "Edit" button to open the Filter Rules window.

The following steps refer to the image at the left: Click the "More" button. Make sure that "Match all of the following" is selected. Choose "sender" from the drop-down menu indicated. Select "doesn't contain" from the next drop-down menu. Type the email address to be excluded from the filter in the next line (pete@moss.net in this example). Close the Message Filters window and save the changes when prompted to do so.

This process may be repeated up to three more times to exclude multiple addresses.

Disabling filters

To disable a filter, open the Message Filters window and click on the name of the filter you want to disable (from the list on the left portion of the screen). Remove the check mark to the right of the filter . Click OK to save the changes.