Both e-mail systems at NDSU provide some form of spam filtering. In both cases, rather than remove the offending messages, they will mark the subject. In order to prevent these messages from showing up in your new mail folder, you will need to create a mail filter in Pegasus.

To create a folder, follow these steps:

1. Start Pegasus by clicking on the Pegasus Mail icon.
   
   
2. At the top of the screen, click on the 'Tools' menu option. Then select 'Mail filtering rules' -> 'Edit new mail filtering rules' -> 'Rules applied when folder is opened'.
   
   
3. A screen called 'New mail filtering rules' will open. Click on 'Add rule' at the top and then click on 'Headers'
   
   
4. Under 'If any of these headers' click on the box next to Subject
   
   
5. If you are using ndsuext.nodak.edu mail, in 'Contains this text' enter: {Spam?}
   If you are using ndsu.edu mail, in 'Contains this text' enter: ***HECN SPAM Alert***
   
   
6. Next to 'Action' select Move.
   
   
7. Click on the 'Set' button. A screen called 'Select a mail folder' should now appear.
   
   
8. Click on the 'new' button to create a new folder
   
   
9. Name the folder SPAM and click OK
   
   
10. Double click on the 'SPAM' folder and click OK
    
    
11. Finally, click on 'Save' in the toolbar to save the filter. Now click 'Close'.

 

Please note that you should check your SPAM folder from time to time for mislabeled messages. We also recommend you clean out your SPAM folder on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to keep the folder size down.