Scientific Supercomputing at the NIH

Filtering SPAM with Outlook

Before email messages are delivered to Helix users they are checked for both SPAM and viruses. In messages rated possibly but not certainly spam, the Subject: is prefixed with Potential SPAM:
Below are instructions to automatically move such messages into a special folder with the Outlook mail client.

1. Open Microsoft Outlook Tools Rules and Alerts

2. Click on 'New Rule'

3. Check 'Start creating a rule from a template' click 'Move messages with specific....' in Step 1

    click 'specific words' in Step 2

4. Enter 'Potential SPAM' click 'Add' click 'OK'

5. Click 'specified' link in Step 2

6. Select 'Mailbox' 'New'

7. Enter 'Potential SPAM' Select 'Mail and Post Items' Select 'Mailbox' Click 'OK'

8. Click 'Next>'

9. Check the box as pictured 'Next'

10. Check the box as pictured.

11. uncheck everything 'Next'

12. Finish as pictured 'Finish'

13. Click 'OK'