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Step 1: Start the Rule
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Rules enable you to automate some aspects
of message handling. For example, you can set up a rule that immediately
deletes messages with particular subject information. To start creating
a rule in Outlook Express, choose Tools, Message Rules, and then click
Mail. The New Mail Rule dialog box appears.
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Step 2: Choose the Condition
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In the Select the Conditions for Your Rule list, click to check
one or more conditions on which you want Outlook Express to evaluate
the messages. For the MIS Spam Filtering effort, you should choose
the "Where the Subject line contains specific words" condition.
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Step 3: Choose
the Action
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In the Select the Actions for Your Rule list, click
to check one or more actions that Outlook Express should perform when
a message matches the specified condition, which you’ll finish creating
in Step 4. If the PJM tag is correctly flagging most of your junkmail,
then you could have Outlook Express delete the mail. (If you are worried
an incorrectly flagged piece of mail could be deleted, you could make
a new mailbox, and filter PJM into that specific box. See
Option 1 below.)
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Step 4: Define the Condition
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In the Rule Description area, click the blue link. In the dialog
box that appears, create the criteria that more specifically define
the condition. In this instance, we are filtering mail tagged with
PJM in the subject by the MIS anti-spam efforts. You could also add
other words that you wanted to filter.
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Step 5: Finish the Rule
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Erase the contents of the "Name of
the Rule" text box, and replace it with the name you want to
use for the rule (in the exapmle, our rule is called "junk").
Then click OK to close the dialog box. The Message Rules dialog box
appears.
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Step 6: Apply the Rule
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Click OK to close the Message Rules dialog
box and put your new rule into action.
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