DOWNLOADING SPAM MESSAGES INTO MICROSOFT OUTLOOK

To keep your email disk quota from filling up, it is a good idea to periodically empty the messages in your spam folder from your account.  You may either delete them directly from your Webmail account or download them to your local hard drive using an email program such as Microsoft Outlook.

To download the messages into Microsoft Outlook, you will want set up an account that will only download messages from the spam folder in your account.  To create the account, follow the steps below:

1. Open Microsoft Outlook Express or Outlook 2000/2002
    
2. Select Accounts from the Tools Menu.
    
3. Create an account with the user name "user-folder@yourdomain.com."  For example, if your username is "info" and your spam folder is named "spam," you would create an account with the username "info-spam@yourdomain.com."  Use the same password that you use with your regular username.
   
   
    
4. Click Apply and then OK.  The account will show up in the list of accounts as shown below:
   
   
    
5. Check your mail.  Outlook should successfully connect to the Acme mail server and download the messages in your spam folder.
    
6. Disable the spam account.  To do this, double-click on the name in the Internet Accounts list or select the name and click on Properties on the right of the screen.  That will open up the following window:
   
   
   
   Uncheck the box at the bottom of the window that says "Include this account when receiving mail or synchronizing."  Click Apply and then OK.
    
7. Outlook will not download the mail in your spam folder when the account is disabled.  Whenever you would like to download the spam messages from your account again, recheck the same box, hit Apply, OK, and then check your mail.