All mail arriving at our servers from outside will be passed through a set of filters which attempt to classify it as spam or non-spam. You can customize your SPAM setting by following the instructions here.

Once the classification has been made, special headers are inserted into the mail message, and the mail is delivered as usual. Note that all mail will continue to be delivered. You are responsible for filtering the incoming mail and doing with it what you will. The computer support group will not make decisions about the content of your mail or what to do with it other than to add these spam classification headers.

The only exception to this rule is when mail is found to be infected by a known virus. In this case, the virus is removed from the mail (or attachments) and the mail is delivered along with a notification of what was removed.

For the foreseeable future, we do not recommend simply throwing away messages filed as spam. We expect to be trying new filters from time to time, and while we test these filters extensively before we add them to the system, we cannot be sure that they always lead to the desired result. Check your spam regularly, just in case...

In our filtering system, a tag will will be added to each message. The tag is as follows:

***SPAM(Score)***

This tag will be added to the subject line of each message so you can easily setup a filter to move all your SPAM messages to a separate e-mail folder that you check once a day or so.

Each message will have information about why the system marked it as SPAM and then the original message will be an attachment to the SPAM notification. To read the original mail simply click on the attachment.

Instructions for Various Mail Readers

Outlook:

1. Go to Tools->Rules Wizard...
2. Click 'New...' (on the top right)
3. Choose 'Check messages when they arrive'
4. Click 'Next'.
5. Check 'With specific words in the message subject'.
6. Click on 'specific words'.
7. Type in: ***SPAM (three asterisks on each side of the word SPAM)
8. Click 'Ok'.
9. Click 'Next'.
10. Check 'Move it to the specified folder'.
11. Click on 'specified'.
12. Choose an existing folder (such as Deleted Items or Junk E-Mail) or create a new folder to which you would like mail classified as spam to be moved (e.g. Spam)
    
13. Click 'Ok'.
14. Click 'Next'.
15. Click 'Next'. (Again, unless you want to add exceptions.)
16. Give the rule a name. (The default is what you typed for specific words above.)
17. Check 'Turn on this rule'. (You may or may not want to check 'Run this rule on my Inbox now'.)
18. Click 'Finish'.

Outlook Express:

1. With Outlook Express open, move to the Tools menu and select the
   Message Rules option, then Mail
2. If the "New Mail Rules" window does not appear, click on the New button in the upper right of the "Message Rules" window;
   the "New Mail Rules" window is displayed.
3. Respond to 1.) Select the Conditions for your rule by checking the box next
   to "Where Subject line contains specific words."
4. Respond to 2.) Select the Actions for your rule by checking the box adjacent to "Move it to the specified folder".
5. Respond to 3.) Rule Description (Click on an underlined value to edit it) by clicking
   the highlighted words "contains specific words"; the "Type Specific Words" window will appear.
6. Type ***SPAM and click the Add button and the OK button
7. Click on the highlighted word "specified"; the "Move" window will appear.
8. Choose a folder to which you would like mail classified as spam to be moved, or create a new one, then click OK.
   
9. Respond to 4.) Name of the Rule by highlighting the words "New Mail Rule #1" and typing Spam Filter.
   Click the OK button.

Eudora:

1. From the main Eudora window, select the drop down menu Special, then select Make Filter.
2. Click Add Details.
3. Click New to make a new filter. Notice the Untitled name in the left of your screen.
   Now check the box next to Incoming under the Match category.
4. In the Header drop down menu, select .
5. The next drop down menu should read contains. In the empty box next to it,
   enter ***SPAM
6. You can safely leave the next menu as ignore. (This part is where you can daisy-chain
   filters one after another.)
7. Under the Action section, the first drop down menu should read Transfer To,
   then click the button immediately across from it.
8. When you click the button, it will present you with a list of existing mailboxes
   and a New.. selection.
9. Click New and a window will pop up asking you to name a new mailbox.
10. Enter the name of the folder to which you would like mail classified as spam to be moved
    (for example Spam)
11. Click OK.
12. Close the "Filters" window, and click Yes to confirm.