Filtering With Eudora

Every message that is centrally scanned for spam is given a score. To allow Eudora (and other email software) to filter mail automatically, a mail header (X-Spam-Score) is added to each email.

To configure Eudora to filter on this header, you must do the following:

1. Open the "Filters" window. On PC versions of Eudora, this can be found under Tools>Filters. On MAC versions it is under Window>Filters.

2. Click on "New"

3. Select the drop-down-box just below the Incoming, Outgoing and Manual checkboxes, and type in X-Spam-Score:

4. The next drop-down-box should already be set to "contains". Immediately to the right of this is where you can choose what Score a message needs to receive before it is filtered. Messages are scored by stars (*). Entering more stars here will result in more conservative spam checking (ie. fewer messages will be filtered as spam). A good starting value is five stars, but see what works best for you.

5. Select an action. (eg. "Make Priority" "Lowest"). You could also choose the "Transfer To" option to send these messages to another mailbox, or to the Trash Folder.

6. If your filter looks similar to the one shown below, close the filter window (Click on Yes when asked to save changes).

   PC:

   

   MAC (OS X):