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Filters
Filters are used automatically to sort your incoming and outgoing email into mailboxes. This saves most people a lot of time moving messages from their In or Out mailbox to various mailboxes. For your assignment, you will create two filters to sort your incoming compined listserv messages and your incoming messages from the coordinator into the mail folder or mailbox you created in the previous lesson. Click on the name of the program you are using to view the tutorial on creating a filter, then return to this page to continue with the lesson.
There is also filtering of email that can occur at the university level. This level of filtering would reduce the amount of "spam" (junk) email that reaches UVic users by filtering them out. Please note that this blocks ALL e-mail from servers considered to be 'spam friendly'. This means that e-mail from valid users on those systems will also be blocked. For more information on what is filtered, see technote tn2001004 at http://helpdesk.uvic.ca/technote/2001/tn2001004.html. This spam filtering service is operated on an "opt-in" basis. That is, no filtering is done unless you explicitly ask for it. Opting in can be done online, using a new web-based tool located at:
UVic Computing Spam-filtering Opt-in Form
http://web.uvic.ca/sysprog/cgi-bin/spamhater.pl
Now, you can go onto the next section on address book and nicknames.
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