


Which spam filters are available in Litmus Spam Testing? We'll provide you with direct feedback on what each filter did with your email and what you can do to improve your chances of reaching the inbox. With Litmus Spam Testing, you can test your emails against all of the major spam filters and inbox providers. The best email teams test their emails against these filters to find deliverability problems before sending. In short, reaching the inbox can be no small task. Not only do email filters block the bad stuff, today's filters also prioritize, classify, and organize emails to make end users more productive. In contrast, today's filters are incredibly sophisticated and adaptive to each mailbox, message, and sender. In the past, email filters were primarily intended to block spam, phishing, and other types of unwanted email and applied largely the same filter criteria across all mailboxes.
#MICROSOFT SPAM FILTER OUTLOOK SOFTWARE#
Check your junk mail folder periodically to ensure that no legitimate messages were accidentally marked as junk mail.Before an email ever reaches its intended recipient, it first must pass through one or more filters – software algorithms designed to identify and stop malicious or unwanted mail from reaching the inbox. Under Step 2, click the blue, underlined word, specified, as shown below:Ĭlick OK to enable this rule for all future mail handling, as shown below:įuture mail that is tagged as "POTENTIAL SPAM" will be moved to your junk mail folder. The new search criterea will appear under Search list. In the window that opens, type the words Potential Spam in the text box at the top. Under Step 2, click on the blue, underlined phrase, specific words, as shown below: In the Rules Wizard dialogue box, under Step 1: Select a template, select Move messages with specific words in the subject to a folder, as shown below: In the window that opens, click on the New Rule. Open Outlook and select the Mail Navigation Pane from the bottom left corner.Ĭlick on the Tools drop down menu and select Rules and Alerts. This will ensure that messages tagged as "POTENTIAL SPAM" by the CU Boulder spam-tagging service will be placed in your junk mail folder.
#MICROSOFT SPAM FILTER OUTLOOK HOW TO#
The instructions below describe how to use this feature in conjunction with the University of Colorado at Boulder spam-tagging service. If you need to handle a specific type of email message in a special way, you may want to customize some message filters on Outlook. Select Junk Email, and click either Add Sender to Safe Senders List or Add Recipient to Safe Recipients Lists. Right-click on a message from the sender. To add a sender to your Safe Senders List or Safe Recipients Lists: Any messages sent to the email addresses or domain names on this list will not be treated as junk email messages, regardless of the sender or content of the message. You can configure Outlook 2007 to accept only messages from the Safe Senders List, giving you total control over which messages you receive.Īn emailing list or group that you are a member of can be added to your Safe Recipients Lists. Contacts are trusted by default and messages from them will never be treated as junk email messages. Email addresses and domain names on the Safe Senders List are never treated as junk email messages, regardless of the content of the message. If an email message is mistakenly marked as a junk email message by the filter, you can easily add the sender of that message to your Safe Senders List.

You can customize the junk email filtering of Outlook 2007 in the following categories:

It is important to check your Junk mail folder on occasion to make sure no legitimate email messages have been accidentally labeled as spam. Note: Notice that "Permanently delete suspected junk email.
