Email Help: How to set the SPAM Filter to handle a specific email address

Problem:

You have the SPAM filter enabled but you are still receiving unwanted email from a specific email address.

Solution:

Add an address specific filter – By doing this you are telling the email system that any email from the address you name should be deleted without advising either you or the sender of the email.

• Use your web-browser to navigate from the SON site to “MyUW” and
  login using your account and password.
• If necessary click on the “MyFrontPage” tab and then select the
  “Junk Email (Spam) Filter” link.
• On the left side of the resulting page, find the “Add Filter” section. 
  
  It contains several options – pick the one that best suits your intentions:
  
  
1. “Block” – This is the one that will simply delete the email without warning you or the sender.
   
   
2. “Reject” – This one returns the email to sender with a message you can specify.  The problem with this one is that you are telling the spammer that you are alive and Feisty. This may just encourage them to try harder.
   
   
3. “Sort” – you can use this one to direct the UW email system to route messages from a specific email address to a folder within your email account:
   
   This can be handy if you get many messages from a particular person, you want to keep them, but would prefer to collect them in a specific folder for processing.
   
   You can also choose the “junk-mail” folder as a repository.  In so doing, you allow for the possibility that a message from this address might be something you would want to review before it is deleted.
   

   The interface is self explanatory – be sure to exit the browser completely once you have finished.


Submitted by:

Clark Johnson, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Psychosocial & Community Health



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