Managing Your Junk Mail Junk email and spam are a problem everyone faces. It's not hard to get on a spammer's list, but it's difficult to get off the list. Outlook 2003 includes an improved junk mail filter that includes safe senders, | Team LiB Managing Your Junk Mail Junk email and spam are a problem everyone faces. It s not hard to get on a spammer s list but it s difficult to get off the list. Outlook 2003 includes an improved junk mail filter that includes safe senders safe recipients and blocked senders lists. Microsoft built the junk email filter using information it learned from studying Hotmail s spam. Microsoft plans to provide regular updates to the junk email filters on the Office update site which is accessible using the Help Check for Updates menu selection. Let s hope this junk email filter doesn t end up like the ones in previous versions of Outlook where promised updates never materialized. Along with safe lists you can mark messages that are in the Junk E-mail folder as not junk and the message is moved back to your inbox. When you ve moved all the messages out of the folder that were caught by the junk filter right-click on the Junk E-mail folder and choose Empty Junk E-mail Folder to permanently delete the messages in the folder. These messages are not moved to the Deleted Items folder and cannot be recovered so make sure that you remove all the messages that were moved to the folder by mistake before you empty the folder. Access the Junk E-mail settings from Tools Options Preferences and clicking the Junk E-mail button or by right-clicking on any message and choosing Junk E-mail Junk Email Options see Figure . Figure . New to Outlook 2003 the Junk E-mail rules provide much needed spam filtering capabilities. Select the level of filtering you want from this dialog. Use the Junk E-mail Options dialog to set the level of protection you desire No Automatic Filtering Disables the automatic filters but continues to filter messages from addresses on the blocked senders list. Low Catches some junk mail but lets a lot through. This setting won t catch many newsletters or advertising you requested. High Catches most junk email including newsletters and advertising you .
