CREATING A RULE FOR SPAM

In the Outlook inbox select “Tools”, and then select “Rules and Alerts”.

The “Rules and Alerts” box will appear. Click on “New Rule”. Select “Start from a blank rule”.

At the “Rules Wizard” window, “Step 1: Select Condition” check the box “with specific words in the subject”. At the “Step 2: Edit the rule description (click on an underlined value)” click on “Specific Words”. Another box will appear and under “Specify words or phrases to search for in the subject:” you will type in [SPAM] – including the brackets! Now select “Add” and then “OK”.

In “Step 1: Select action(s)” check the box “Move it to the Specified folder”. At the “Step 2: Edit the rule description (click on an underlined value)”, click on “Specified Folder” and another “Rules and Alerts” box will appear. Select the folder you want the [SPAM] items to go to – in this case “Junk E-Mail”. Click “OK” and the “Rules and Alerts” window will close. You will be returned to the “Rules Wizard” window.

At the Rules Wizard window scroll down and select “Stop processing more rules”. The Step 2 box should look like the example below. Now select “Next”

The final Rules Wizard window should look like this:

Now select Finish.

At the Rules and Alerts window, the rule will be listed. Should you have other rules in this list, use the priority selection buttons to bring the [SPAM] rule to the first rule position thereby giving spam collecting priority over the other rules! Click “Apply” and then “OK”. You now have a SPAM rule!