To protect yourself further from spam, you can set up message rules in your email program. Message rules are a set of conditions and actions that your email program can apply to your incoming or outgoing messages. Two different types of mail rules can help control spam. You can set one up to look at the "To" and "CC" lines and one to look and the text of the Subject and text in the body of the message.
"To: and CC:" Rule
Much of the spam that you get does not have your email address in the
To: field but instead some fictitious email address. What a message
rule can do is have any email that is not addressed to you, either moved
to a different folder (where you can look though later and delete what
you don't want) or just move it to the Deleted Items folder.
Depending on what email program you have, the steps to create a rule will be different. Click on the appropriate link for instructions for the email program that you have.
Windows
Outlook Express 5
Netscape Messenger 4.7
Eudora 5.1
Macintosh
Outlook Express 5
Netscape Messenger 4.7
Eudora
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