Filtering out the Spam from your Hotmail account.

Here's the scoop on the new Hotmail story, about them giving out your info... http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/business_technology/technology_news/software_news.html?s=articles/20020520/hotmail_policy_ 

Hotmail has a couple of different options for screening out the Spam. 

The first and easiest is to turn on the Junk Mail setting.

First lets look at the four settings labeled Off, Low, High, and Exclusive. 

Off means that no filter will be applied. 

Low will only filter the most obvious of Junk Mail and most messages will be delivered to your Inbox. 

High will send most of the Spam to the Junk Mail folder. It may send some mail that is not Junk to the Junk Mail folder. The proper way to use this filter would be to make sure to add any new "valid" mail contacts to your HotMail address book. Its easy, when you receive a message from someone that should always be delivered to the Inbox, open the message and press the "Save Address(es)" button on the top left. Verify the quickame and press OK. You can add to this with the "Safe List". in the safe list you can add a single address or all of the mail that comes from a dot.com. For example, if you get a lot of mail from yourwork.com, you could add yourwork.com to the safe list and all mail that has yourwork.com at the end will go to the Inbox.

Exclusive will zap every message that is not in your address book or your safe list. Use this setting if you have been meticulous about maintaining the address book and safe list. Also note: if you use the exclusive setting you will need to put your own email address in the address book so that you can receive reminders and notices. 

This is a very simple step but it is pretty generic. HotMail recommends that you check the "Junk Mail" folder periodically to see if real mail is going there.

Next well look at some more detailed filtering --->