User guide

User Guide 219
spamBlocker
About using spamBlocker with multiple proxies
You can configure more than one SMTP or POP3 proxy service to use spamBlocker. This lets you create custom
rules for different groups in an organization. For example, you can allow all email to your management and
use a spam tag for the marketing team.
If you want to use more than one proxy service with spamBlocker, your network must use one of these
configurations:
 Each proxy policy must send email to a different internal email server.
or
 You must set the external source or sources that can send email for each proxy policy.
Create rules for your email reader
To use the Tag action in spamBlocker, it is best to configure your email reader to sort messages. Most email
readers, such as Outlook, Thunderbird, and Mac Mail, allow you to set rules that automatically send email
messages with tags to a subfolder. Some email readers also let you create a rule to automatically delete the
message.
Because you can use a different tag for each spamBlocker category, you can set a different rule for each
category. For example, you can set one rule to move any email message with the ***BULK*** tag in the subject
line to a Bulk subfolder in your inbox. You can set another rule that deletes any email message with the
***SPAM*** tag in the subject line.
For instructions on how to configure the Microsoft Outlook email client, see Send spam or bulk email to special
folders in Outlook. For information about how to use this procedure on other types of email clients, look at the
user documentation for those products.
Send spam or bulk email to special folders in Outlook
This procedure shows you the steps to create rules for bulk and suspect email in Microsoft Outlook. You can
have email with a spam or bulk tag delivered directly to special folders in Outlook. When you create these
folders, you keep possible spam email out of your usual Outlook folders, but you can get access to the email
if it becomes necessary.
Before you start, make sure that you configure spamBlocker to add a tag for spam and bulk email. You can use
the default tags, or create custom tags. The steps below describe how to create folders with the default tags.
1. From your Outlook Inbox, select Tools > Rules and Alerts.
2. Click New Rule to start the Rules wizard. Select Start from a blank rule.
3. Select Check messages when they arrive. Click Next.
4. Select the condition check box: with specific words in the subject. Then, in the bottom pane, edit the
rule description by clicking on specific.
5. In the Search Text dialog box, type the spam tag as
***SPAM***. If you use a custom tag, type it here
instead.
6. Click Add and then click OK.
7. Click Next.
If you use spamBlocker with the SMTP proxy, you can have spam email sent to the Quarantine
Server. For more information on the Quarantine Server, see About the Quarantine Server.