Slaying the Spam Mail Monster

Email Spam Rules

Here are some email rules that can help keep spam out of your Inbox.

Check your email service's Preferences or Settings to see where you can creat e email rules, then choose the rules you like from the list below and add them to your account. A few quick tips:

1. These rules are based on an email account that includes an 'Archive' folder and a 'Spam' folder. If your email platform uses different names for those folders then change the folder names in each rule. If your email platform does not have an 'Archive' folder or a 'Spam' folder then you may be able to create folders with those names.

2. Where a rules uses a regular expression, the actual regular expression is enclosed in a pair of triple-quotes. Remove the triple-quotes when you are entering the regular expression in your email platform's preferences or settings for rules.

Good luck!

The Rules

Gravitas Be Gone

The following rule uses a regular expression to identify email messages that mention the term 'gravitas'.

If the Subject or Body contains """/(Gravitas|gravitas|GRAVITAS)/g""" then move the email to the Spam folder.

Master Class? No Thank You.

The following rule uses a regular expression to identify email messages that mention the term 'master class'.

If the Subject or Body contains """/(Master|master|MASTER)+ +(Class|class|CLASS)/g""" then move the email to the Spam folder.