Article SPAM04
What is the BTInet Spam Filter?
The BTInet Spam filter is a tool used to limit the number of unwanted Spam messages you may receive. The BTInet Spam filter is already enabled and set to a recommended default level. Any messages that the Spam filter considers to be Spam will have the word “Spam” or “Bulk” added to the beginning of the subject line. You can choose to delete these messages or log into the Spam Filter’s Web interface to adjust the aggressiveness of the filter and/or block these messages so they never reach your mailbox.
You have the option of customizing the Spam Filter to do some of the following:
- You can choose to send messages flagged as Spam to Quarantine. (See Article SPAM13 for more info.) Instead of receiving these messages in your Inbox, they will now be quarantined by the Spam Filter. You will then receive a daily e-mail summary of those messages that have been quarantined. From within this e-mail summary you will have the option of deleting the messages you don’t want, “whitelisting” specific senders so future e-mails from them are not blocked, or delivering the message without making any changes. NOTE: You can change the interval between e-mail summaries from daily to weekly or never. (See Article SPAM15 for more info.)
- With the quarantine feature enabled, you can log into the filter and choose to deliver, whitelist, or delete your messages the same way as you can in the e-mail summary; however, you can also specify if the message is in fact spam or not spam. Once you have classified 200 messages as spam and 200 messages as not spam, the filter will have enough information about your personal preferences to better deliver or block messages without your intervention.
- If you already know specific e-mail addresses that you want to always allow or block, you can add them to your whitelist (allow) or blacklist (block.) (See Article SPAM12 for more info.)
