How to block spam before it hits your inbox.

Our new anti-spam system was developed to trap spam and hold it in an area where it can be scanned for viruses, reviewed for importance, and/or deleted. Follow the steps below to properly set up spam filtering for your email account.

1. Click the "Settings" link in the upper right hand corner of the Qis.net home page.
2. Enter your username and password, the same one you use for your email account.
3. Click on the Spam Settings image. This will show your quarantine contents once you have established your preferences.
4. Click the "Preferences" link at the top center of the page.
5. Check the "Quarantine Spam" box if you do not want to receive spam messages then press "Update".
6. Check "Tag Subject" if you do want to receive spam messages, but want the subject prefixed with the ***SPAM*** identifier, in order to filter the spam email with your email program then press "Update".
7. You also have the opportunity to establish a spam threshold. The default setting is 5.0, and should work fine for most users. If you find that you are still receiving too much spam, try lowering your threshold a bit, in increments of about 0.2 (e.g. if you were at 5.0, try 4.8 for a few days). On the other hand, if too many good emails are marked as spam, try raising your threshold a bit. Valid threshold values are 0-10.
8. Also, on this page you may establish a “White list” and “Blacklist”. Your “White list” is the list of email addresses from which you'll always want to receive mail. Your “Blacklist” is a list of email addresses from which you'll never want to receive mail.
   
9. Once you have established your spam preferences, you may return to the quarantine screen by clicking on the “Quarantine" link at the top center of the page.
10. The Quarantine page allows you to view messages that the spam filter caught. You may read the messages here and then deal with them as you see fit. If you want to send a message to your email account, click the R or Resend box, or to delete the message, click the D or Delete box. Messages older than 7 days will be automatically deleted by the system.