Junk e-Mail Management

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Junk e-mail is seemingly inevitable if you have an e-mail account that you use even casually. Any mail sent to your @maine.edu address passes through a mail scanner to help tag junk e-mail as SPAM, making it easier for you to filter it all out.

If you're looking to cut down on the amount of junk e-mail you see/receive, we've got some tips that should help you out.

Quickly Delete Any Junk e-Mail in your Inbox
If you've got a lot of e-mail marked as '{SPAM?}' in your Inbox, there's a quick and easy way to delete most all of it.

1. Log into Horde at http://mail.maine.edu/imp. You'll need your UNET e-mail ID and password to log in to your e-mail account.
2. Click on the Inbox under Mail to see the messages in your mailbox.
3. Click on the Subject heading to sort your mail by the Subject line.
4. Highlight all of the e-mails with {SPAM?} in the title by clicking the checkbox () to the left of the message.
• If you have an entire page of {SPAM?} messages, click the Select menu and choose All to select all messages quickly.
  
5. Click on the Delete button to mark your messages to be deleted. The messages you have marked to delete will turn gray with a strikeout line through them.
6. Important: Click the Purge Deleted button in order to actually delete the messages from you Inbox.

Filtering Your Junk e-Mail
Filters allow you to automatically carry out certain tasks when you check your e-mail. You can easily create a filter to move or delete any message marked as {SPAM?} when it arrives.

Create a Filter in Horde

1. Log into Horde at http://mail.maine.edu/imp. You'll need your UNET e-mail ID and password to log in to your e-mail account.
2. Click the Mail option on the left to display your Inbox and Mail options.
3. Press the button on the toolbar.
4. A list of all filters will be displayed. Press the button to create a new filter rule.
5. Create the rule by filling in the highlighted fields:
   

This will create a rule that automatically marks any message tagged as "{SPAM?}" to be deleted. You'll still have the opportunity to view the message and confirm you want to delete it. You will need to press the Purge Deleted button to remove these items from your mailbox.

6. Press Save to create the new filter.