E-mail Filters with Eudora

Eudora allows you to set up filters to sort your email into different folders, or delete certain messages. You can use this functionality, in conjunction with the Spam Tagging service available on mail.rochester.edu and troi.cc.rochester.edu, to filter unwanted messages out of your inbox.

With spam tagging enabled, all spam-identified messages will have a subject that begins with:

        Subject: ~SPAM=[SCORE]~

The SCORE here is the rating the spam detection software has given a particular piece of email. This rating is based on an extensive scoring system that assigns values certain aspects of email messages. For instance, email messages that have words in all capitals will score higher than email messages that do not include "lines of yelling". If you are interested in the complete rules, check here: spam rules.

You can create a filter in Eudora to detect all messages tagged as spam and move them to a different folder.

Start out by clicking on Tools and selecting Filters, as shown below:

In the window that appears, click on New. You will then see the following screen:

Configure the settings as shown below:

• Make sure that Incoming is checked.
• For Header, select Subject.
• Select contains from the next drop-down menu.
• In the text box next to contains, type ~SPAM= . This is the text that is added by the Spam Tagging mechanism.
• Under Action select Transfer To .
• Right-click the In button and select New (shown below).

Type in SPAM and click OK.

Your filter is now complete and then you can close the Filter window and Save and changes that you made.

Any messages that come into your inbox tagged as spam will now be moved to your SPAM folder. Be sure to check the folder from time to time and delete your unwanted messages.

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