Notes spam mail filtering: Introduction

Kent Kurchak, President, Courseware Source

Kent Kurchak is the president of Courseware Source, a Lotus Business Partner that specializes in creating in-depth training materials for Lotus Notes and Domino developers, administrators, and users. Courseware Source is also the developer of Network Delivered Knowledge (a knowledge management application suite used to create on-line courses, books, job aids, knowledgebases, newsletters, and expertise directories), and TeamApps (teamware applications designed to help make groups more productive).

Craig Lordan, Project Manager, Lotus

Craig is the Project Manager for the Lotus Developer Domain. He started at Lotus in January 1998, first working in the Notes/Domino documentation group. In August 1999, he joined Iris Associates to be a writer and then Content Manager for Notes.net. In previous jobs, he was a technical writer at EDS and Harper & Shuman (which has been gobbled up by some company called Deltek). He holds a Business Communication degree from Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. and is still looking for a nice frame for it. When he's not working, Craig is usually spending time with his wife, or watching his tape of last night's Late Show with David Letterman.

Summary: Part 1 of 3: How to use the mail rules, a standard feature of Notes mail, to filter spam mail from individuals or entire Internet domains, and how to filter based on the subject or content of the message.

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Remember when you opened your very first e-mail account, and you were eager to get your first message? Back then, any message was exciting, even ones from strangers trying to sell you something, telling you the latest joke, or wishing you good fortune if you would just forward the message to 10 of your friends.

As the number of messages in your Inbox started to increase, however, it probably became more and more annoying for you to wade through what had quickly become unwanted e-mail to find the "real" messages. And occasionally, in your eagerness to purge your mail file of the junk, you accidentally deleted messages you wanted to keep.

You have experienced what we can call the "unwanted message syndrome" which can be described as: A person's tolerance for unwanted messages ("spam") decreases as the number of e-mail messages increases.

Figure 1. Unwanted message syndrome

In our special three-part series of articles this month, we investigate three options for filtering spam mail -- Notes mail rules, Domino messaging restrictions and controls, and an AntiSpamFilter agent.

Notes mail rules

Mail rules allow individual users to filter and manages all their messages, including spam mail, right within the Notes client. Read the full article.

Domino messaging restrictions and controls

Although spam is typically considered a personal inconvenience, its compounded effect can negatively impact entire mail systems. Domino messaging restrictions and controls allow system administrators to filter spam mail. Read the full article.

AntiSpamFilter agent

This customized agent is designed specifically to identify and combat spam mail. Read the full article and download the design from the Iris Sandbox.

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