Accsoft uses Spam Assassin, among many other anti-spam measures.

Once Spam Assassin finds a suspected junk email (the calculated "spam score" is higher than 5, or the level you specified), the label "{Spam?}" will be added to its subject line.

This is a safe measure because you still got a chance to examine the email in case it was a genuine email mistakenly identified as spam by Spam Assassin.

If you do not want to receive identified spam into your computer at all, you may tell Spam Assassin to delete them forever.  However, you are taking the risk of missing genuine email as you do not have a chance to second check them on your computer.

If you still want to receive identified spam but would like to put them all into a particular folder on your computer for later examination, you can set up your email program to move them all to the "Spam" folder (or any folder you create).

On Outlook Express, here is how you can set it up to move all "{Spam?}" labeled email to a folder:

Open the Message Rules box from Tools >> Message Rules >> Mail...

From 1, select "Where the Subject line contains specific words"
From 2, select "Move it to the specified folder"
From 3, click "contains specific words"

Enter "{Spam?}", click "Add", then click "OK"

From 3, click "specified"

Expand the "Local Folders" (by clicking on the small +) then select "Spam".  (If there is no folder called "Spam", please create it by clicking "New Folder".)

Optionally, enter "Spam Rule" in 4.
Click "OK"

Now your Outlook Express has been set up to move identified junk email into the "Spam" folder for you to examine and/or delete.

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