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SPAM Filtering for Microsoft Outlook Express 5/Entourage 2001, X, and 2004

Note: Steps will be the same for all 3 versions, but screen shots may look a little different. These screen shots are taken from Microsoft Outlook 2002. Microsoft Outlook Express does not have the ability to filter email based on X-Spam-Scores.

• In Microsoft Outlook go to Tools-->Rules Wizard (note: in Microsoft Outlook 2003 it is called "Rules and Alerts") and select "Start from a blank rule" then click "Next"

• Then check "with specific words in the message header.

• Click on "specific words" under the Rule description and enter the following: X-Spam-Score: ***** and click OK
• The fewer asterisks '*' you enter the more likely you are to flag legitimate email as SPAM.

• Choose the Action you want to do to the message: "move it to the specified folder". Then click on "specified" under Rule description.

• Select the folder you want to move the email to. In this example it is moved to a "SPAM" folder. Click OK.

• This is an example of a completed Rule. Notice I've also set an additional X-Spam-Score: ********** rule which will automatically delete e-mail with a SPAM score that is 10 or above.

Note: There may be slight differences between the look of the windows in different versions, but the commands will be basically the same. These screen shots are from Entourage 2004.

• In Microsoft Entourage go to Tools Menu-->Rules-->Click on the Mail (IMAP) Tab and then click the "NEW" button in the upper left to create a New Rule.
• Give your new rule a name such as "SPAM Filter".

• In the If section of the rule, check that Execute is set to "if all criteria are met".  
• Click on the "All messages" drop down box and select "Specific header".

• For Specific header type in: X-Spam-Score and for Contains type in: *****
• The fewer asterisks '*' you enter the more likely you are to flag legitimate email as SPAM.

• In the Then section of the rule, click Remove Action to remove the existing default actions.

• Click on "Add Action" and select Move message from the drop down list and then select Choose folder. You can create a new folder in your Inbox labeled SPAM for example and Choose that folder to move your message to.