(Answer) (Category) Accessing Services at OA5 / YASK / Irial : (Category) My Email : (Category) About SPAM : (Answer) Creating rules to use the X-Assp-Spam-Prob: heading
To create rules to use the Assp SPAM classification you need to turn on mail filtering using websieve((Xref) Can I set up Automatic Replies and Vacation Messages?), and create a rule to store your SPAM in a separate mail folder, you should check this folder occasionally to see if any real mail has been mis-classified. Once (if) you are happy with the filtering then change the filter to discard the mail straight away.

To set up a filter, go to your normal webmail page and click on the Folders link. Create a new folder to store your spam temporarily. You will need to remember the name you give the folder. Try something like spam_store. Then go to this page:

 http://MY-DOMAIN/cgi-bin/websieve.pl
where MY-DOMAIN is your usual www.something address

log in with the same username and password that you use for accessing webmail.

Now click on the "Advanced Options" button, set "activate script" to yes ( this turns mail filtering on ). Then click "Save Changes"

Now click the "Add Rule" button

In the top of the main section select the check box for "Use regular expressions"

In the next part of this section look for a field called "Field Name" in this box type X-Assp-Spam-Prob and in the "contains" box enter the following text, which means 1.0 or 0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9 ie what we believe is spam. Note the "\\." is two back-slashes and a single dot.

 (1\\.0)|(0\\.[6789])
Finally choose what to do with the suspected SPAM. We suggest filing it into the folder SPAM which we created for you with your account, as this folder is auto-cleaned after 3 days, which gives you time to check for mistakes, but you might also simply chose to discard the message.
 
now click on the "save rule" button.

This will start filtering your mail - Don't forget to check the spam store occasionally for non-spam, and then click show all, toggle all and delete in your spam_store mailbox to throw the unwanted mail away, as it's using space that you could be using for real mail.

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2007-Aug-13 07:38
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