Q.
How can I Filter Spam Email?
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Are
you tired of receiving unsolicited email messages by the hundreds
per day? Lilmonster.com now offers several email filters that will
allow you to separate the "junk" or "spam" emails
from the legitimate email messages that you receive. Follow carefully
the instructions given below:
Please Note: These settings work for Lilmonster.com and lmtcg.com email systems, No Guarantees with any other email system.
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In
order to activate your email filters, you must first log into your
email account using the Lilmonster.com
webmail page. Once you have logged in, click on the Account
Options located on the upper right side of the page. From the drop
down menu select Filters. Press the Add button to start adding the
email filter rules. Follow the instructions given below, the sample
image posted below includes fields that are numbered according the
order of instructions.
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- From
the “Select Field” click on “Headers”.
Put a dot next to the word “contains”.
- Inside
the box provided for “Phrase” you will type the
following email filter rule; X-IMAIL-SPAM-DNSBL (make sure
that they are all capitalized).
- Then
click on “Add Condition” button. The email filter
rule will actually move from the “Phrase” box
down into the “Rules” box.
- From
the “Filter Action” box, you can select “Move
this message to this mailbox” which will put every message
being rejected into a folder called “Spam”. The
option “Forward this message to” will allow you
to specify an email address where you would like to have the
bounced emails forwarded to. The “Delete Message”
option will simply delete any bounced emails without leaving
a copy of the message.
- In
the “Destination” box, you can either specify
the email address of where you want your bounced messages
to be forwarded to or you can simply type the work “Spam”
and it will create a folder within your email box where it
will store any bounced message
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For
each of the following filter rules you will follow the same procedures
instructed above. These should be installed 1 at a time starting
with level 1, this removes the most spam. then if that doesn't stop
enough for you, try adding level 2, then level 3, then level 4. |
Filter
Rules: |
Level
1 = "X-IMAIL-SPAM-DNSBL" This does not allow
any email from any domain on the DNS Blacklist, and stops the most
emails |
Level
2 = "X-IMAIL-SPAM-VALFROM" This validates the
email by verifying the domain it came from. |
Level
3 = "X-IMAIL-SPAM-STATISTICS" This scans the
email for keywords that are specific to spam mail. |
Level
4 = "X-IMAIL-SPAM-VALHELO" This verifies the
email by saying hello back to the mail server. |
Dad's
Tip: make a different mailbox for each filter, That way you can
see what is being filtered by which filter. |
