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How to Restrict the Entry of Unnecessary Mails in your Inbox ?

Email – the one name that every PC user understands and makes use of extensively. Contact anyone at any corner of the world at a fast rate now! Send one mail and your message is conveyed. Just like it has advantages, similarly there are disadvantages of this process. Anyone who likes to sell something or have the intention of spreading malware can just send a mail to the receiver.

What you should do then? Contact the PC repair services and know the process of blocking all unwanted email messages. Block the mails which you don’t need in your inbox and secure yourself from identity thefts, spam messages and viruses.

The Procedure of Blocking Emails

Firstly, activate spam filter of the email program. You will get this filter along with the majority of the email programs, whether it is system-based or Web-based. How will you know whether you have a spam filter? In case you have the ‘junk’ folder, you are sure you have spam filter.

Secondly, you should set your email settings to its greatest level. With theremote technical support from the reputed service, you can set this security level for blocking the maximum number of email messages.

Finally, you can visit the email settings and by clicking on Block, you can make your own block list. If you like you can select the senders whom you wish to block. With this setup, you are assured not to receive any mails from the specific sender you have added to the block list.

How to Enable the built in Anti-spam with Exchange 2010

Just a short one on how to enable the Anti-Spam function on the Hub Transport server, this is written for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 however it is the same process for Exchange 2007 also. This ads some useful functions like IP Block list Providers, Sender Reputation and Content Filtering options.

First close your Exchange Management Console (if you have it open) on the Hub Transport server

Exchange Management ShellExchange Management Shell

Then open up the Exchange Management Shell. It should be in Start – All Programs – Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 – Exchange Management Shell

It should look something like this below.

Microsoft Exchange 2010 - Exchange Management Shell

Now we are going to run the following command.

SetTransportServer -Identity ‘Your Hub Transport Servers Name’ -AntispamAgentsEnabled $true

It should look something like the below, substituting your server name for the mail-serverpart of course.
SetTransportServer -Identity ‘mail-server’ -AntispamAgentsEnabled $true 

Microsoft Exchange 2010 - Exchange Management Shell enabling Anti-Spam

Now when you go back into your Exchange Management Console you will have a couple of new tabs in your Organization Configuration -> Hub Transport and also in your Server Configuration -> Hub Transport both new options are called Anti-Spam and are shown below. Checkout whats in them and I might put up a few additional help blog posts on adding functionality with filtering settings and whatnot at a later stage.

Exchange 2010 Anti-Spam

Exchange 2010 Anti-SpamHappy Exchange 2010′ing. Questions in the comments. Cheers