Eudora for Macintosh Spam Screening (POP)

Eudora Information

The instructions below pertain to Eudora 6 for Mac OS X with POP.

Everyone with an account created on or after October 4, 2004 will have a Spamscreen folder already created on the mail server. Regardless of your configuration choice (IMAP or POP) your spam will be filtered on the mail server.

If you are using the POP protocol, there are some important things to keep in mind:

• If a folder named Spamscreen is on the mail server, it will not be visible from your local Eudora client. You can view your Spamscreen folder via WebMail.
  
  
• Spam mailed to your MIT email address will be marked and filtered into the Spamscreen folder prior to being downloaded by your Eudora mail client. Users should check this folder periodically to confirm the spam is being handled appropriately. You can modify your personalized settings.
  
  
• Should you wish to remove the Spamscreen folder from the mail server follow the instructions for WebMail: Delete the Spamscreen Folder.

POP Configuration

Note: IS&T now recommends IMAP for accessing email. IMAP provides flexibility and functionality, especially with regard to accessing email from multiple machines/clients, that POP does not. The following instructions are provided for legacy POP users not yet ready to switch to IMAP. For more information about IMAP visit the Guide to IMAP at MIT.

Create a Filter

1. Launch Eudora
   
   
2. From the Window menu, select Filters.
   
   
   
   
   Result: The Filters dialog box appears.
   
   
   
   
3. Click the New button at the bottom of the left column.
   
   
   
   
   Result: The filter creation entry fields become active.
   
   
4. Enter spam flag information in the Match section:
   1. Incoming checkbox: Leave it checked, for control of incoming mail.
   2. First entry field (under Outgoing and Manual): Enter X-Spam-Flag.
   3. Drop down menu: Change contains to is.
   4. Entry field next to contains: Type YES. (Be sure to use all capitals.)
   
   
   
5. In the first menu in the Actions section, select Transfer To.
   Result: The Choose Mailbox dialog box appears, and the Transfer menu becomes active.
   
   

Create a Mailbox

Note: Everyone with an account created on or after October 4, 2004 will have a Spamscreen folder already created on the mail server.

1. From the Transfer menu, select New...
   
   
   
   Result: The New Mailbox dialog box appears.
   
   
2. Type the name of your mailbox, for example, Spam.
   Important: Do NOT check the Make it a folder box.
   
   
3. Click OK.
   
   
   
   Result: The filter should look like this:
   
   
   
   
4. Close the Filter Window and click Save when prompted.
   
   
   
   The next time you check email, any message that is marked as spam by the scoring will be filtered into the mailbox you created.

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Check Your Mailbox

You should periodically check your new mailbox, especially during the first 6-8 weeks you are filtering spam, to make sure nothing that you consider legitimate email is being filtered. Things such as monthly newsletters are very difficult for a computer to distinguish from spam, so be on the look out.

After verifying the email is spam, you should delete the messages to save hard disk space.

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Configure Your Personalized Settings

Once you have set up spam screening, there are some additional (optional) settings that you might want to configure. See Spam Screening Personalized Settings to configure the settings below:

• Set Your Spam Scoring Level
  Customize the level that determines whether a message is considered spam or not.
  
  
• Manage Your Allow List
  Enables you to identify message senders from whom you always wish to receive a message.
  
  
• Manage Your Deny List
  Enables you to identify message senders from whom you never wish to receive a message.
  
  
• Enable Automated Purging
  Enables you to choose to have spam messages older than 21 days automatically deleted.
  
  

Note: Any account created on or after October 4, 2004 will have auto-purge enabled by default. This option is a personalized setting and may be toggled off.

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