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My company has Windows 2000. I get a lot of spam emails from the UK and other countries. Half of which I can't read even if I wanted to. How would I go about setting up a rule in Outlook to prevent getting email from another country. I always put them in my junk email file, but I'm sure it is quite full. How would I get to the junk email file and does it take up a lot of space?

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by Ryan Boudreaux140

Sounds like you need an email filter. SurfControl SuperScout Email Message filter will allow you to add specific domains to its Discard Domains isolate folder, or you can have specific emails from specific domains discarded without isolation. We have used this filter for over a year and have eliminated 95% of the SPAM and unwanted emails from ever reaching our employees. The email filter server sniffs the network email packages that are sent to our email server and isolates any that match the rules. We have rules in a heirarchy scheme for SPAM, viruses, unknown attachments, subject specific, discard domains, executables, images, unallowed senders, and isolate adult. While we spend as much as 2 hours a day reviewing the isolated emails, it has reduced the down time for our employees from having to sort through hundreds of email a day for the few legitimate emails.

I hope this brief overiew helps!
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by Ryan Boudreaux140

In Outlook, the junk email folder should be located as a subfolder under Personal Folders. If not you can add one. I have used Outlook for filtering adult and junk email but it is not very good at being specific, it tends to maintain a generic filter state. Therefore, you will not have much success with attempting to filter specific domains from Outlook on a client side.

by carollong

I hope not all the email you get from .uk is junk! I have the same problem with .jp and .us domains - I sympathise.
First create (or identify) a folder to recieve these emails in Outlook.
Then create a rule (from Inbox, use menu Tools, Rules Wizard) to move messages from a specific group to a folder. Scroll down the conditions to roughly the top half of the second page and you will find an option "with specific words in senders address" tick/click this. In the lower box on this tab click on "specific words" to open a window. Type .uk and click Add, then OK.
click on "specified folder" and browse to select the folder you want to put the junk in (under personal folders). Now click Finish or Next and add any other options you want. Starting in Inbox means that the rule is associated with incomming emails.
Every week or so, review the contents of the folder so you don't dispose of real email. Use the folder view to click into your folder that recieves junk (you may have chose the junk folder) under Personal Folders. Highlight the junk and press Shift-Delete. This removes the messages perminantly - so Outlook asks if you really mean it.
Deleting old messages and junk in this way helps release diskspace and, as outlook doesn'thave to manage so many messages, outlook will run slightly faster.

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