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Setting filtering options
Adjust Anti-Spam's filtering options if you want to filter messages
more aggressively, specify how you want to process spam, and
look for specific character sets when analyzing spam.
Filtering level
The filtering level dictates how aggressively your e-mail is filtered.
For example, if spam is not filtered and your filtering level is set to
Medium, you can change it to Medium-High or High. However, if
the filtering level is set to High, only e-mail messages from
senders in your friends list are accepted: all others are filtered.
Spam processing
Anti-Spam allows you to customize various spam processing
options. For example, you can put spam and phishing e-mail in
specific folders, change the name of the tag that appears in the
subject line of the spam and phishing e-mail, specify a maximum
size to filter, and specify how often to update your spam rules.
Character sets
Anti-Spam can look for specific character sets when analyzing
spam. Character sets are used to represent a language, including
the language's alphabet, numeric digits, and other symbols. If
you are receiving spam in Greek, you can filter all messages that
contain the Greek character set.
Be careful not to filter character sets for languages in which you
receive legitimate e-mail. For example, if you only want to filter
messages in Italian, you might select Western European because
Italy is in Western Europe. However, if you receive legitimate
e-mail in English, selecting Western European will also filter
messages in English and any other languages in the Western
European character set. In this case, you cannot filter messages in
Italian only.
Note:
Specifying a character set filter is for advanced users.
Change the filtering level
You can change how aggressively you want to filter your e-mail.
For example, if legitimate messages are filtered, you can lower the
filtering level.
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Open the Spam Protection pane.
How?
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