Setting Up a PMX Filter with Bates Webmail

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Setting Up a PMX Filter with Bates Webmail

• Makes E-mail Easier to Read!!!

Information Library Services
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Creating and Managing PMX Message Filter in
Webmail

• Open Bates Webmail https//webmail.bates.edu
• Login with username and password
• Click on Filters
• Note that Webmail has default filters listed
• Click on the word PureMessage

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PMX Filter Settings

• Click on dot match all of following
• Choose Subject default
• Choose Contains default
• PMX - 3 is the default number of listed,
  you can change this to between 1-5 , 5 being the
  worst SPAM

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Rules for Setting up Filter

• Place a check in case sensitive
• Choose the action under Do this
• Default is to deliver to folder use pulldown to
  place in a folder (Junk or Trash by default), or
• Do this another choice is to delete the message
  completely

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Settings continued

• Click Save
• Click Return to Filters List
• Click the red to enable PureMessage filter
  changing it to
• Remember to empty Trash or Junk folders regularly
  if PMX messages are sent there

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Tips

• Webmail filters PMX messages from the server
  before it is received by Thunderbird, without
  setting any additional filters
• It will work from the time enabled, not for what
  is currently in the Inbox
• The least number of the filter is set to delete
  or move, captures the most messages

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Helpful Webpages

• Creating folders http//www.bates.edu/ils/helps
  heets/createfolders.html
• E-mail filters http//www.bates.edu/ils/helpshe
  ets/webmailfilters.html
• Managing Trash and/or Junk folders
  http//www.bates.edu/ils/helpsheets/deletions.htm
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• PureMessage definition http//www.bates.edu/ils/
  notices/spam/index.html