Outlook Express

Switch into your Inbox and go to Tools > Message Rules > Mail.

Click on the New button on the right hand side.

In the first box choose the Conditions for your filtering. You can choose to filter messages from certain people, or containing certain words.

In the next box you can choose the Action you want to happen when Outlook Express receives an e-mail which matches your conditions. You can choose to Delete the message or Move it a selected folder. (Choose Move if you want to keep the filtered messages - you may want to do this to ensure that you do not accidentally filter out an important message).

In the last box you should see your rule for filtering written out. The blue underlined words are sections that you must edit. To do this click on the word and fill in the relevant information. Name your rule and click OK.

You should be back at the main rules page. If you have other filters you want to set up click on the New button again and repeat the process.

Microsoft Outlook (Windows)

To set up Spam filtering in Outlook go to Tools > Rules Wizard.

Click on the New button on the right hand side.

Since you want to filter your incoming mail you should highlight Check messages as they arrive and click on the Next... button.

Now you need to choose what you want to filter out. You can choose to filter messages from certain people, or containing certain words.

Once you have chosen what conditions you want to filter for, you need to edit those conditions. To do this click on the blue underlined words and fill in the relevant information.

In the next box you can choose the Action you want to happen when Outlook receives an e-mail which matches your conditions. You can choose to Delete the message or Move it a selected folder. (Choose Move if you want to keep the filtered messages - you may want to do this to ensure that you do not accidentally filter out an important message). If you decide to move the message to a specified folder, click on the blue underlined specified folder and choose or create a folder to move spam to.

In the next box you will be asked it there are any exception to your rule. You can look through this list or ignore it.

You will then be asked to name your rule and whether or not you want to filter the messages that are already in your mailbox.

Name your rule and click OK.

You should be back at the main rules page. If you have other filters you want to set up click on the New button again and repeat the process