Technology Tips – Published June 2020 in the Guide and Digest
By Don Trauger – Kennett
Many of us continued with Comcast email after the transition to Verizon. Using it has been satisfactory for the most part. However, Comcast’s Spam filter, at best, is a lukewarm operation. Yes, it will filter out some Spam emails but for the most part it lets the bulk of those emails through to your Inbox.
Here’s what you can do to beef up the filtering of Spam emails. First sign in to your Comcast email account as you usually do and open your Inbox. Next click the gear (Settings) on the far upper right of the page. Click “Settings” in the drop down menu. Then click Advance Settings on the left. Scroll down to Spam Filtering and put check-marks in “Enable spam filtering” and also “Save a copy of emails marked as spam”. Click “Mail” at the top left to return to your Inbox. You have now set up the Spam filter properly. Next is the procedure to train the Spam filter to work more aggressively in filtering out those annoying and repetitive Spam emails.
Looking at your Inbox emails, determine a Spam email and put a check-mark in the box at the far left of the Spam email. You can usually tell Spam by who’s it from or by the subject matter. At the top of the page click the icon that has an arrow pointing to the right. That’s the “Move” icon. When the Move window opens click “Spam” then at the lower left click “Create filter rule” The latter is the key to making the Spam filter work better. A message will appear at the bottom that says “All future messages from the sender will be moved to the selected folder”. Click the “Move” button. In the last window just click the “Save” button.
Now you have to train the filter to make it work efficiently. I recommend that you continue through your Inbox emails clicking the Spam emails and by following the preceding procedure. It’s best that you go back 4 weeks in time to get the best results.
After you go through the procedure you should find 90% of your Spam emails will not appear in your Inbox. As with any Spam filter it’s best to review the Spam folder’s content frequently for any good emails that may have ended up in there.
The good news is that I have only done this procedure once through the previous 4 weeks of my emails. It seems that the majority of Spam emails are sent by just a few bulk e-mailers. I’ve only added a few single ones in a month’s time.