How To Stop Spamming By Using Filters

Filters deal with unwanted mail known as spam mail. If you are using filters, it deals with unsolicited spam mails. Message rules or Filters calls by Outlook Express, which basically reads those email which are not available in Inbox or in other words you can say that before putting emails in the inbox. They do specific task from blocking undesirable emails to organizing them into single folder. It is most important utilized feature of Outlook Express, and save your time and trouble if you have few basics filters. Now get started with the steps that set filter to stop spamming.

Step1. Open Outlook Express and click on Tools from the main menu at the top of the title bar. Select Message Rule from the drop down menu and then click on Mail.

Step2. When you click on Mail a “New Mail Rule” popup window will appear. It is the core of the many filter created by you. You can select the condition to make a particular rule under the “Select Conditions for your rule” which stop certain names or email address from coming in. Second box tell that “what to do with that mail” like move it to any folder or directly delete it.

Step3. After selecting particular options, click on OK. Then “Message Rules” window will appear to add more rules, remove or modify the existing rules.

Creating rules for email account is simple process. Anything you do for setting filter to put specific person email in a folder along with their names or block spam ad or unsolicited emails.

Steps to Quickly Block a Sender

In above mentioned discussion we discuss about how to set filter to stop spam mails to block specific people. But we have another option to quickly block a person.

Step1: First you have to select the mail whose sender you want to block. Make sure it is highlighted. Then go to the main menu at the top and click on “Message”. Select Block Sender from the drop down list. By selecting this mail address will put in the block sender list & delete all future mails of that person. This method is work for both IMAP and POP3 accounts.

Note: If you have a Hotmail account, then to set filter you have to go to Hotmail site & from there you will able to add filter to your Hotmail account.