| March 8, 2002
Face it. If you have email, you have SPAM. You as
a customer of Greenapple can do a few steps to greatly reduce the flood of
junk mail in your inbox. First off, you should forward your SPAM to
spamcop@greenapple.com. Once
we receive the email, we can then add the sender of the SPAM to our real time
blackhole list. This list then acts as a filter on our mail server to
block the sender from future SPAM to greenapple recipients. Not all
users mail is being filtered. We can only add you to this filter by
special request. To do this, you must call us at Greenapple and provide
us with the email accounts you would like to be filtered. About 70-80%
of actual SPAM is blocked but there is also a risk of legitimate mail not
getting through. If you are experiencing troubles with a specific sender
that you would like to receive mail from but don't seem to get it,
please call us with the block senders email and we will then be able to fix
your problem.
Outlook Express users can also block unwanted
mail. Outlook has two built in tools to filter your mail before it
reaches your inbox. The first tool is the Block Senders List. This
is list of senders that works just like our system but has your own personal
block list. If you receive a message that is unwanted, just left
click to highlight the message then click Message > Block Sender
> Yes > OK. From now on, the senders email is blocked and sent straight
to the delete items. The second tool is to create message rules.
This is a way to block mail that has unwanted key terms in the subject line
(adv:, FREE!, WIN NOW!, YOU JUST WON!, ect.). To create a message
rule, click Message > Create Rule From Message... From here
there are many different ways to filter the incoming mail. For
additional assistance, please call tech-support at 653-9890 during normal
business hours. |
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