We all dislike junk emails or unsolicited emails that offer free stuff.
Windows Mail has some useful features that allow control over junk emails that we receive.
Have you ever found that sometimes emails sent by friends/acquaintances end up in junk email folder in Windows Mail?
This can be easily prevented especially if the email address is of a person that you had sent an email earlier to.
We will configure Windows Mail to never allow emails sent from a particular address to be marked as junk,the important condition being that this email address was actually replied to by us earlier.
Let’s take a look on how to use the various options related to junk emails filtering in Windows Mail.
Open Windows Mail (Start > Run > winmail)
Go to Tools > Junk Email options and then Safe Senders tab.Check the box that displays “Automatically add people that I email to safe senders list”.
By default,the junk emails filtering in Windows Mail is set to low.This can be changed from the tab Options.
Do note that the more aggressive the filtering is set to,the greater will be the probability that non-junk emails will be marked as junk.
One option that we need to be particularly cautious about is the deletion of junk emails.If that is set,then any email marked as junk will be permanently removed instead of even going to the junk email folder.This can be troublesome if useful emails are flagged as junk,best bet will be to leave the option as it is.
Now let’s take a look at domain wide filtering.
Any email ending with a same domain name like @spammers.com can be blocked if we add that domain in blocked senders list.
To do this,click on the Blocked Senders tab,then the Add button and enter a domain name.
Here I use spamcompany.com for illustration.This will block any email with that domain name in reaching the inbox.Individual addresses can also be added to the blocked senders list.
Many times,we get junk emails with a specific country code like .ru or .za and so on.This too can be blocked by blocking the top level domains (TLD).
Go to International tab and hit Blocked Top Level Domain list.
This will show all the possible TLDs,select as required and click Ok.(I have set .ru as a blocked TLD in this case.)
Feel free to play around with the junk email settings in Windows Mail,they are pretty much flexible and easy to configure.
Hope this has been an informative post.