The Advanced Method: Making Your Own Rules

You like to make your own rules in life. You're comfortable handling your spam your own way rather that letting CITES Spam Control delete or quarantine spam messages for you.

Solution:
Choose the Tag and Deliver policy.

All email sent to netID@uiuc.edu is tagged with a spam score, regardless of which policy you use. If you don't want Spam Control to take further action with your spam, such as automatically deleting or quarantining messages, then use the Tag and Deliver policy. You can configure most email clients to filter your messages based on their spam scores. For instance, you can have email with a spam score of 50 or more moved to your junk folder. The Tag and Deliver policy allows the most customization through the use of filters you create yourself in your email client, but keep in mind that a mistake in a filter you create can have unintended and possibly harmful effects. Care should be taken when creating any filter that permanently deletes email; it's safer simply to move unwanted email to another folder.

Note: Email from servers that are being actively blocked by CITES (due to a very high probability that they send spam) do not arrive at our campus and therefore cannot be delivered. See the Adapting to new spam threats section in the Spam Control Overview web page for more information.