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How to filter messages marked as SPAM in Webmail.

If your mailbox has enabled spam filter settings then the spam filter, called Spam Assassin, will scan each message that comes to your account. Each message will be tested against rules that Spam Assassin is configured to run. If the message scores certain number of "hits" (by default 7) it will be marked as spam. Depending on the settings on you mail account that message will be either deleted or stored in your Inbox with a marker string (by default *****SPAM*****) appended to the subject of the email. You can use that string to filter out those messages to some other folder, so they don't clutter your INBOX folder.

I)
Login to your email account.
If your mailbox is not displayed by default, click on INBOX, this will display all emails that you have currently stored on the server.

Note:
If you're also using some other program to retrieve mail from the server (i.e. Outlook) and this program is not set up to save a copy of the message on the server, you will not see the messages that you already downloaded to your local computer.

II)
Create new Folder, which will store your spam messages.

1. Click on Folders
2. From drop down menu "Choose Action" click small arrow pointing down, this will open up the menu selection.
3. From that menu select "Create Folder"
4. A small box will pop out asking for the name of new folder. Type in SPAM. Click OK.
5. You should see a newly created folder in the folder tree.

III)
Create a filter that will filter out your spam messages

1. Go back to Inbox by clicking INBOX icon
2. Click on Options icon
3. Under Mail Management click Filters link
4. Click on Edit your filter rules
5. Under the Rule Definition click on the small check box to the left of Subject. This will put a small check mark into that box.
6. Type in *****SPAM***** into the Text field. If you defined some other string to mark your spam messages, type in that string.
7. Click on radio button next to move messages to and select SPAM folder from the drop down menu.
8. Click Create button.
9. Your newly created filter rule will be moved to top of the page under Filter Rules section.
10. Click on Options icon.
11. Under Mail Management click Filters link.
12. Click on each checkbox to create check marks next to: "Apply filter rules upon logging on?" , "Apply filter rules when mailbox is refreshed?" and "Display message when filters have been applied?".
13. Click Save Options button. This will save the options that you selected and will take you back to Options page.
14. Click INBOX to go back to your mail messages.

Note:
Steps I, II and III are the initial setup that is required to make the filter work properly in your Webmail. Once you create SPAM folder and set the filter settings you don't need to repeat those steps every time you log in to your email account.

IV)
Moving spam messages to SPAM folder.

1. If you are not already in your Inbox folder, click on INBOX icon.
2. Click on Reload icon or Apply Filters . This action will copy the spam messages to SPAM folder and mark all messages in Inbox that were moved as deleted.
3. Click on Purged Deleted to remove those massages from Inbox folder

Note:
If after logging in to your account you see messages marked as spam in your Inbox, refresh the Inbox or Apply Filters to move them to designated spam folder.

V)
Removing spam messages from SPAM folder

1. In upper, right corner select SPAM folder (or the name of the folder that you designated for spam) from the drop down menu. This action will display all the messages in the that folder
2. Mark each message that you want to delete by clicking the check boxes on the left. If you wish to remove all messages click drop down menu with Select: and click on All. This will mark all the checkboxes.
3. Click Delete. This will mark all messages as deleted.
4. To remove deleted messages for good, click on Purge Deleted.