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Filtering Junk E-Mail with Outlook 2000/2002

The message rules in Outlook are highly configurable, and can be easily used to filter your junk e-mail, aka spam. The instructions below will show you how to filter e-mail that isn't addressed to you into a folder. You can check it at your convenience, rather than have it mixed in with your other e-mail.

To filter junk e-mail:

1. Launch Outlook.
2. From the File menu, select New, and choose Folder.
   
3. Type a name for the folder and select where you want to put the folder. We chose Spam for the folder name.
   
4. From the Tools menu, and choose Rules Wizard.
   
5. Click the New... button.
   
6. Select Check messages when they arrive and click the Next button. Note: For Outlook 2002, you need to choose START with a blank rule and then check messages when they arrive in that order.
   
7. Select Suspected to be Junk E-mail or from Junk Senders and click the Next button.
   
8. Select Move it to the Specified Folder and then click on specified in the bottom box.
   
9. Select the Spam folder and click the OK button. If your folders aren't expanded, click the plus (+) sign to the left.
   
10. Click the Finish button.
    
11. Click the OK button to close the Rules Wizard.
    

Note: If some spam gets through your filter, right-click the message header, select Junk E-mail and then Add to Junk Senders list. This will keep it from getting through again.

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