Fighting Spam: Outlook Configuration

1. In Outlook, click on the Tools menu and select Rules and Alerts (or similar).
2. Choose New Rule
3. Make sure Start from a blank rule is selected.
4. Choose Check messages when they arrive
5. Click Next
6. Choose with specific words in the message header in the top half of the window.
7. In the lower half of the window, click on specific words.
8. A window titled Search Text pops up. You shoud specify one of the following here:
   • X-Spam-Status: Yes
   • X-Spam-Level: ***** - Where the number of stars (*) is the spam score assigned to the email message. Five stars is default, you can adjust up or down to make spam filtering more or less aggressive respectively.
9. Click on Add
10. Click on OK to close out the Search Text window.
11. Click on Next to move on to the next section: What do you want to do with the message?
12. In the top half of the window, choose move it to the specified folder
13. In the lower half of the window click on specified (part of move it to the specified folder)
14. A window will pop up and allow you to choose a destination folder for your spam. Create or choose an already existing folder from this list.
15. Click OK to return to the Rules Wizard
16. Click Next
17. Check any exceptions you'd like to use (in general there will be none).
18. Click Next
19. Choose a name for this rule. Either use the default or call it Spam
20. Make sure Turn on this rule is selected.
21. Click Finish