If you use Microsoft Outlook to work with email, you are certainly one who searches for an effective Outlook antispam. We have written this tutorial to help you filter spam appearing in the inbox of your Outlook Express. It will also teach you to send messages from certain people into the folders you choose yourself. You thought you could filter spam effectively only with the help of the extremely expensive anti spam software? Read on to understand there are different approaches available.

The Inbox Assistant

Open Microsoft Outlook Express and click Tools - Inbox Assistant. The box appearing on the screen will show you the list of the rules set up to filter spam. The box is currently empty, because you haven't inserted any. To create the first rule, click Add.

Now you see another box. Let's imagine we want to automatically clear all incoming email messages with the Subject line containing letters "QWE". To activate this, type QWE in the box situated near the Subject. So, the first criteria to filter spam has been set up. Then you can choose the action to be taken when the incoming email meets such a criteria. For example you can choose to delete it off server. You may also choose it to be deleted after a certain period of time or store it in a separate folder.

The Inbox Assistant allows you to set various kinds of criteria. There are several actions available to be performed on email, depending on:

- who sent it;
- what was the address to send to;
- who was carbon copied in the message;
- what words can be found in the subject;
- what was the source account the message was downloaded from (of course if you have more than one account);
- the size of the message;

The last option is very useful if you have slow connection at home, and you can't easily download email attachments. You may also choose to use the checkbox which is named "All Messages". If you check this box, the action you set is applied to each message sent.

When you set the criteria, you can decide what happens to the messages meeting that criteria. You are capable of:

- moving the message to a certain mail folder;
- copying the message to a certain mail folder;
- forwarding the message to another email address;
- replying to the message with a text file;
- deleting the message;
- ignoring the message;

You can set as many filter spam rules as you want. They will be applied in the stated order so you should choose what filter should be applied first. Filters are a great way to manage email automatically. Filter spam with the help of the Outlook Express Inbox Assistant.

Of course there are other programs and applications which help filter spam, but as most users worldwide use Microsoft Windows as their operating system, thus using Microsoft Outlook Express as their default email client, the issue filter spam with the help of the inbuilt tools becomes the most urgent and important one.

Spam filter for... Don't let those bad guys use your personal email box to earn money by sending unsolicited emails and malicious applications. Even Outlook may become a powerful tool to fight them.