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How do i configure the POP3 or SMTP daemon to filter my emails?

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How do i configure the POP3 or SMTP daemon to filter my emails?

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The following statement is for the version v4.6a or a later release. (1)The POP3 daemon will provide a filtering for any incoming emails from the remote POP3 server. You need to set the remote POP3 mail server in the General tab of the POP3 daemon Settings window. You may want to log any emails by checking the Log regular emails option. Then you will enable any or all of the filtering rules in the Rules and Filters tab. In general, you can enable Block Executable Attachments, String Matching, and DNS-based Blocklist Services. If you have a Spam Assassin server running, you can enable the Spam Assassin rule (Spam Assassin client). If the email message matches the rule or filters, the message will be marked as *SPAM* or *BLOCK* in the subject. However, the POP3 daemon will still deliver the message to your email software. You should configure the email software to delete those messages. This is straight forward if you are using Outlook Express 6. You will create a mail rule under Tools->

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