Setting Up Known Spam E-mail Addresses (Blacklist)

To ensure that you do not receive e-mail from senders who are known spammers, you can add addresses to your blacklist. The blacklist contains e-mail addresses whose messages you do not want.

Depending your settings, Spam Shredder then either quarantines or deletes e-mail from that address. In essence, Spam Shredder knows those messages are spam and handles them for you automatically.

Note: You should add a sender to your blacklist only if you receive multiple messages from the same sender. If your blacklist becomes too long, it can slow e-mail performance.

You can add e-mail addresses to your blacklist in the following ways:

Enter each address individually (this section)
Add addresses from quarantined e-mail
Add addresses from delivered e-mail

To add e-mail addresses to your blacklist:

Start Spam Shredder, if it is not already running, and display the main window.
For more information, see Starting Spam Shredder.
In the icon panel, click Blacklist.
For information about the Spam Shredder window, see Understanding the Spam Shredder Window.
The Last Hit column shows the last time the blacklisted address sent you e-mail. The Hit Count column shows how many times the blacklisted address has sent you e-mail since you added it to your blacklist.
Click Add E-mail Address.
The Edit E-mail Address window displays.
Enter the address you want to add to your blacklist.
Enter the address in the format: login_name@domain_name (for example, tom@webroot.com).
Click OK.
To edit an address, select it and click Edit E-mail Address. To delete an address from the blacklist, select it and click Delete E-mail Address.