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I read a recent article that estimates that 83% of all email traffic in the U.S. is unsolicited spam. Therefore, I thought I'd republish some information from the April 2003 ITDE Newsletter concerning filtering spam using Eudora:

Reducing email SPAM – help from UNH CIS.

In recent weeks you may have noticed that some of your email has additional headers in it that refer to X-MailScanner: Found to be clean and X-MailScanner-SpamCheck. These new headers are the result of CIS implementing virus scanning and SPAM checking on all email that is passing through the cisunix system. A large portion of our email passes through this system as well. The benefit of the new virus scanning program is automatic – should a virus be detected in incoming mail, you will receive a notice telling you what the virus was and what measure was taken to prevent the virus from making it to your computer.

In order to take advantage of the SPAM checking portion of the implementation, SpamAssassin, you will need to set up a filter in Eudora. Members of the ITDE team have implemented this filter at varying levels of sensitivity with consistent success. CIS has posted a detailed "howdoi" for setting up this filter located at the following URL: http://pubpages.unh.edu/notes/eudora_filter_howdoi.html

Although the document states that the instructions are for Eudora 5.2 and Windows XP, they work fine with Eudora 4.2 and other Windows OS versions. Additionally, if you have questions or problems while trying to set up the filter, please contact the ITDE office and *NOT* the CIS contact listed at the end of the document.

Please make sure to check the folder you send the messages to, as some messages may be marked as spam, that shouldn't be. If that is the case, you can modify the filter per the instructions, or contact the ITDE team for additional information.