Managing Spam

Using Filters in Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail - Windows

Hotmail

1. Click Options.
2. On the Mail Handling menu, click Junk Mail Filter.
3. In the Junk Mail Filter window, select your preferred options.

Note: Hotmail also provides Block Sender and Custom Filters options that you can use to create filters for specific e-mail addresses and other criteria.

Yahoo! Mail

1. Click on Options.
2. Select the Block Addresses option to keep certain addresses from reaching your account.
3. Select the Filters options to sort incoming messages for specific conditions.

Note: Conditions can be set to match a message’s full header or just to match the To, Cc, and Subject lines. You can also create filters based on words within the body text of a message. Yahoo! Mail also uses a Spamguard to automatically forward bulk mail to a Bulk Mail folder.