Lesson 1: Configuring Windows Mail

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Practice 2: Configuring Windows Mail Junk E-mail Options

In this practice, you will configure the Windows Mail Junk E-Mail options so that most junk e-

mail is caught and placed in the junk e-mail folder, that phishing e-mail is moved to the junk

e-mail folder, and that any e-mail in Cyrillic, Greek, or Vietnamese is automatically blocked.

These encodings were selected randomly, and the selection is not intended to imply anything

about the frequency of junk e-mail sent using these character encodings.

1. Open Windows Mail. Click the Tools menu, and then click Junk E-Mail Options.

2. IIn the Options tab, change the junk e-mail protection level from Low to High. This

improves junk e-mail protection but also leads to more false positives.

3. In the Phishing tab, ensure that both the Protect My Inbox From Messages With Poten-

tial Phishing Links and Move Phishing E-Mail To The Junk E-Mail Folder check boxes are

selected.

4. In the International tab, click Blocked Encoding List. Scroll through the list of available

encodings, and select the Cyrillic, Greek, and Vietnamese options. Click OK twice to

close the dialog box.

Practice 3: Connecting to a News Server and Subscribing to Newsgroups

In this practice, you will configure Windows Mail to connect to Microsoft’s news server. This

practice requires your Windows Vista computer to be connected to the Internet. To complete

this practice, perform the following steps:

1. Open Windows Mail, click Microsoft Communities.

2. In the Subscribe To Newsgroups dialog box, shown in Figure 9-13, click Show Available

Newsgroups And Turn On Communities.

Figure 9-13 Turning on the Communities feature, which allows the rating and ranking of

newsgroup posts