Configuring E-mail Filters in Outlook 2007

 This document will show you how to make E-mail filters in Outlook 2007, specifically focused on how to filter University-tagged spam into the Junk E-mail folder.

To create a filtering rule for Outlook 2007:

 

On the menus, click "Tools", then "Rules and Alerts..."

On the E-mail Rules tab, click "New Rule"

The Rules wizard will appear. Under "Start from a blank rule", select "Check messages when they arrive" and click Next.

On the next screen check the box for "specific words in the message header"

On the "Step 2" section (the bottom pane), click on the link for "specific words."

In the top box, type "X-Spam-Score:" (include the colon, but not the quotes). Click Add. Click Ok. Click Next.

On the action menu, check the box for "move it to the specified folder."

On the lower pane, click on the link "specified." Select the folder "Junk E-mail." Click Finish. Click Ok.

 

The purpose of this particular rule is to get Outlook to recognize and filter spam email message that the campus email servers have tagged as spam before delivery. Filtering rules can be used for many other things as well, such as filtering mailing list emails, PAN notifications, Out-of-Office auto-replies and so forth. Follow the instructions above and select the appropriate options to make more filters.