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Spam Filter Instructions

At Rossini.com we have installed a spam filter to help our customers deal with unwanted email messages. Our spam filter will detect at least 80% of email messages that are considered to be spam. For these messages, our software inserts the string [SPAM] into the subject area of the email.

Our program does not automatically remove the spam message from your email account. We do not want to make the decision to "trash" a message that our customer may find useful. Therefore, the email will be marked with [SPAM], and by establishing a spam rule in most Email Applications the spam can be effectively removed or moved to another folder. If you choose to move the messages to the trash, be sure to at least briefly review the messages before "emptying the trash."

The instructions below should be used to configure email programs so that email messages marked as [SPAM] are either moved to the trash, or other folder, or even deleted, according to your preferences. Click on the email program you use below for instructions specific to the program you use to pull email.

• Netscape 4.x
• Netscape 7.x
• Microsoft Outlook Express
• Microsoft Outlook 2003
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• MailWasher
• Openwebmail

Netscape Mail 4.x Instructions:

Getting Started
Open the Netscape Mail application, and open your Inbox.

1. Select Edit
2. Next, Select Message Filters

Create the SPAM Rule

3. On the Message Filters window, select "New"
4. On the Filter Rules window, first name the rule
5. Create the Rule by selecting from the drop-down menu, the "subject"
6. Next to the text "of the message" select "Contains"
7. In the blank window in the same row enter the string [SPAM]
8. On the next row, next to the text "then" select "Move to Folder" and select the folder for the Spam (usually Trash)
9. Click "OK" to close the Filter Rules screen, click "OK" to close the Message Filters window.

Netscape Mail 7.x Instructions:

Getting Started
Open the Netscape Mail application, and open your Inbox.

1. Select Tools
2. Next, Select Message Filters

Create the SPAM Rule

3. On the Message Filters window, select "New"
4. On the Filter Rules window, first name the rule
5. Create the Rule by selecting from the drop-down menu, the "subject"
6. For the next drop-down menu select "Contains"
7. In the blank window in the same row enter the string [SPAM]
8. Below the text "Perform this action:" select "Move to folder" from the drop-down menu,
   next select the folder for the Spam, usually "Trash" in the 2nd drop-down menu
9. Click "OK" to close the Filter Rules screen, click "OK" to close the Message Filters window.

Microsoft Outlook Express Instructions:

Getting Started

1. From the Microsoft Outlook Express application, first go to your Inbox
2. Next, Select Tools
3. Select Message Rules, then Mail.

Create the SPAM Rule

4. Click the square next to "Where the subject line contains specific words"
5. Click the square next to "Move it to the specified folder"
6. Add [SPAM] next to "Subject Line contains" then Choose a folder such as Deleted Items, Junk, or Trash
7. Name the rule
8. Click "OK"

There are some differences between different versions of Outlook Express. If you have an earlier version, the wording and steps may be slightly different, but still close enough to these instructions so that a rule can be set up to filter out email messages marked as [SPAM].

Microsoft Outlook 2003 Instructions:

Getting Started:

• Open Outlook 2003
• Click on your Inbox

Create the SPAM Rule

1. Select Tools, then Rules and Alerts
2. Select the E-mail Rules tab, then click the New Rule button
3. Click "Move messages with specific words in the subject to a folder"
4. Edit the rule description and fill in [SPAM] next to subject, and choose a folder where the spam is to be moved
5. Click Finish

Mozilla Thunderbird Instructions:

Getting Started:

• Open the Tunderbird email program
1. Select Tools, then Message Filters
2. Click "New"

Create the Filter (SPAM) Rule

3. Name the new rule
4. Set the filter to Subject Contains [SPAM]
5. Click the box next to "Move to Folder" Select the folder to receive the email marked as [SPAM]
6. Click "OK"

MailWasher Instructions:

Getting Started:

• Open the MailWasher application.

1. Click the Filters tab on the MailWasher application
2. Click Add

Create the Filter (SPAM) Rule

3. On the next screen name the filter
4. Select the box(s) next to the actions you want to apply to the [SPAM]
5. Create the rule "The Subject Field" contains [SPAM]
6. Click "OK"

Openwebmail Instructions

Getting Started:

1. Log onto the Openweb mail application: rossini.com/openwebmail. Click on the SPAM ICON as shown in the screen image below




Create the Filter (SPAM) Rule



2. Select "Subject" as shown in the screen below
3. Select "Include"
4. In the window under (String click to edit) enter the string [SPAM]
5. To direct the spam into the trash, select "Move" to "Trash"
6. Click the "Add/Modify" button to finalize the spam rule