SECTION 1 - Enabling the SPAM
Filter:
The first time you log into the SPAM filter settings page,
you may see a message indicating that your Email SPAM filter is
currently disabled. You may enable the SPAM filter by choosing
one of two buttons. Once you choose one of the two buttons to
enable the filter, you will see a message showing that the SPAM filter
is enabled and whether you chose to DELIVER or DELETE.
- Enable & DELIVER Tagged Emails - This
option means you will continue to receive ALL messages
including SPAM email, however the e-mails you received which are
detected as SPAM by the SPAM filter will show up with
"***SPAM***" tag appended to beginning of the subject
line. (You may customize the Subject Tag if you like, please see Section
2 below)
For example: Subject: ***SPAM*** Home Mortgage Rates
- Enable & DELETE Tagged Emails - This option means the
SPAM filter will DELETE those emails which is has detected as
SPAM, such that those messages are NOT delivered to your KansasNet
e-mail inbox. You will NEVER see the messages deleted by the
SPAM filter.
**CAUTION**: Depending on how a person or
mail client (such as a list-serv) composes an e-mail, the SPAM
filter could automatically tag and DELETE a legitimate message
which was sent to you if you choose the DELETE
option. However, assuming you leave your SPAM filter
sensitivity at the default level (shown below, on the middle notch, or the fifth notch from the left), we have found that these occurences are quite
rare, but you should be aware of the possibility. Keep
reading to learn more about the sensitivity settings.
SECTION 2 - Setting the Sensitivity and Changing
the Subject Tag:
After you have enabled the SPAM filter, you may choose to adjust
the SPAM filter sensitivity (or aggressiveness) by moving the
sensitivity to the right, towards "More Sensitive".
However, we recommend that you do not change the sensitivity setting
from the default level, which is the middle-notch, or the fifth notch from the left (as
shown in the picture above), unless you are prepared to add multiple
"Accept Mail From" Rules (discussed further down this
page). We have found that if you move the sensitivity setting
even one-notch higher from the default level, then the likelihood that
the SPAM filter tags a legitimate message is greater. If you do
change the sensitivity level, make sure to press the Apply
button when you are done.
If you have enabled the SPAM filter and choosen the
DELIVER Tagged mail option, then you might choose to adjust the
Subject tag. You can enter whatever you like, however there is
generally no specific reason why you would need to change the Subject
Tag. If you do customize the Subject Tag, make sure to press the
Apply button when you are done.
SECTION 3 - Adding Custom SPAM Filter Rules:
In addition to the automatic filtering done by the SPAM
filter, you can create custom rules in the SPAM filter rules section
to allow or deny e-mail from specified senders and/or domains.
Note, when creating custom rules you may utilize the wildcard
character * on the email address entered. The wildcard
character makes it possible to create mail rules which act on an
entire domain. For example:
Reject Mail From: someone@spamisp.com will block all emails from
someone@spamisp.com
Reject Mail From: *@spamisp.com will block all emails from anyone @spamisp.com
Reject Mail From: *@*.spamisp.com will block all emails from
anyone@any_subdomain.spamisp.com
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"Accept Mail From" Rules:
You may add "Accept Mail From" rules so that the
filter will always accept mail from specified senders and/or
domains. You might need to add a customer "Accept Mail
From" rule if the SPAM filter is filtering out legitimate
mail from some sender, or if you want to make sure the SPAM filter
does not filter out mail from some sender or domain. To add
an "Accept" rule, select Accept Mail From from the pull
down list, then in the field to the right type in the email address you want to accept email from.
For example: enter someone@somedomain.com and click Add
Rule. You should see the new rule appear in
the custom rules list. (see below for how to use the
wildcard character when adding rules)
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"Reject Mail From" Rules:
You may reject emails from specified senders and/or domains by
adding "Reject Mail From" rules. For example: If you are receiving
unwanted email
from someone@spamisp.com, you can add a rule that will block all mail coming from that
person, or the entire domain. Select Reject Mail From from the pull
down list, then in the field to the right type in the address you want to
block. For example: enter enter someone@somedomain.com
and click Add Rule. You should see the new
rule appear in the custom rules list. (see below for how to
use the wildcard character when adding rules)
- "Accept Mail Sent To" Rules:
Sometimes, when persons or computers send mail to recipients,
the recipients are Bcc'd (blind carbon-copied). Email
address of Recipients who are Bcc'd will not appear in the email
headers. What this means is that if someone or some computer
sends an email to you, such that you are Bcc'd, then when you
receive the email, it will not appear as addressed to you.
For example, mailing lists often send mail to a certain address,
such as mail-list@somedomain.com.
If you are subscribed to such a list, then you know that when mail
is sent to the listserv address, all of the subscribers on the
list receive a copy of the message, although the message was not
sent explicitly to each recipient by the sender. You might
need to add "Accept Mail Sent To" rules if you are part
of a mailing list, such that you receive mail sent to the mail
list address, although your email address does not appear in the
list of recipients on messages you receive from the listserv.
Once you have finished adding rules, you may exit the
SPAM filter settings page by choosing the Logout button at the
bottom of the page. |
