Title: The Shastalink Barracuda Spam Filter
1The Shastalink Barracuda Spam Filter
- How to properly use the Barracuda Spam Filter to
control your Inbox
2How does the spam filter work?
- The Barracuda Spam Filter reads every email sent
to you and determines whether the message is
legitimate, questionable, or definitely junk
mail. - Legitimate mail goes right into your inbox.
- Known junk mail is just dropped, it never gets to
your inbox. - Questionable mail gets put into your personal
quarantine folder located on the Barracuda and
remains there for 30 days or until you deal with
it. - How you deal with your quarantine mail determines
how effective the filtering works for you. - It is up to you to tell the Barracuda that the
mail in your quarantine folder is legitimate or
not, thats how the system learns about your mail.
3So, what do I do?
Do not delete this message! Instead, open the
message and do this..
4Your message will look similar to this one.
Its tempting to click delete here, but that only
deletes this mail from the quarantine folder, it
does not tell the filter that this is spam,
soscroll down and click the link that says
click here.
5Now you can see that more options are available
to you, specifically a button that says Classify
as Spam. Very rarely will you find a legitimate
message in your quarantine folder, but its good
to glance at the items there to be sure.
6By using the select all feature you can deal with
all of the messages in your folder at once.
7After you select all of the messages that are
spam, click the Classify as Spam button, after a
few seconds your screen will look like this.
8Two more clicks and youre done..
- Close the current window by clicking the red X in
the top right hand corner. - You will now be back to the original message from
the Shastalink Spam Filter, you can delete this
message because you are done with it. - Now youre back to your Inbox.
- After you perform this procedure a few times you
will realize that it is only a few mouse clicks
and goes very quickly. - The best part is that after doing this for 3-4
weeks you will see a drastic reduction in the
amount of spam mail that gets through to your
Inbox.
9As always, call 225-0279 if you have any
questions.
- By the way, the procedure outlined here works
exactly the same in Outlook, in Outlook Web Mail
or with any other email client software you may
be using.