The proliferation of spam in this day and age is truly amazing. Office Live’s junk e-mail filter helps keep that nasty stuff out of your Inbox. You can specify the level of security you want, and how you want Office Live to handle those pesky messages.

Here’s how you can change the Office Live Mail spam filter:

1. Click Inbox in the E-Mail section of the Office Live Home page. The Office Live Mail page opens.
2. Click Options in the toolbar. The Options menu expands to show you lots of e-mail options.
3. Click More Options. The Options page opens.
4. Click Filters and Confirmation in the Junk E-Mail section of the Options page. The Filters and Confirmation page opens, as shown in Figure 4-13.
5. Select the level of security, when you’d like to see the spam deleted, and what kind of confirmation you’d like to receive when the deed is done. If you specify the Low level of filtering, Office Live filters only the most flagrant messages. If you set the level to Exclusive, you receive only e-mail from people you have approved in advance. By default, the level is set to Standard. Because no junk e-mail system is perfect, you’ll probably want to leave the Delete Junk E-Mail option set to Later rather than to Immediately. Should the junk e-mail system erroneously mark something as junk you won’t have a chance to retrieve it if you have the option set to Immediately.
6. Click Save to save your changes. You land back in the Options page.
7. (Optional) Click Allowed and Blocked Senders.

Figure 4:13:
Changing the Junk E-mail filters.

The Allowed and Blocked Senders page opens. Here’s where you can create lists for both the allowed senders (those people you want to make sure are allowed past your spam filter) and your blocked senders (those people from whom you never want to receive e-mail). You can even indicate any mailing lists that you have signed up for to ensure that you get their monthly newsletters.

Remember to check your Junk E-Mail folder every time you check your mail
to make sure that important mail has not landed there by accident. If you find a message in this folder that is not spam, click the message and then click Allow Sender from the toolbar.

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