How to Enable / Customise Email Spam Filtering

1. Logging into your Portal
  • Go to the "My Account" section of the Zen website and enter your username or password

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    Note - If you are not signed up for the portal click the button to "Sign Up for a Zen Account"
2. Finding Your Service Details
  • Click "My Services" tab at the top of the portal page

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  • Find your Internet service from the list, then select the arrow to the side to open more information

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  • You'll see a "Things you can do" section, select the option for "Email/sub-domain settings"

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3. Finding Email Addresses
  • Within the "Email Addresses" section, find the email address you need the settings for

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  • Select the "Configure" button to see more information

    Email Addresses section with the option to configure email highlighted
    Note - You can also delete a mailbox by pressing the "Delete" button. Be aware, any deleted mailbox will not be able to be recovered
4. Spam Filtering Settings
  • Under "Email Address" you'll find your email address

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  • Then you want to ensure that "Spam Filtering" is selected:

    multiple highlighted options to set spam filtering, email forwarding and direct email settings
  • Your Spam protection level will be set to "Default Filter".
4. Customising Spam Filtering Settings
  • if you wish to customise this you can do so by selecting an alternative level from the dropdown:

    multiple highlighted options to set spam filtering, email forwarding and direct email settings
Default Filter: Allows all but the most harmful emails through
Low level: Very basic spam filter
Mid level: Should block the most common spam, but some may get through
High level: Very aggressive spam filter, which may block non-spam emails

    5. Save Changes
    • To save and changes you may have made simply click "Save".
    Optional: How to View your Spam Mailbox

    Any mail caught by our spam filters is sent to a different spam mailbox for POP3 email.

    You can access this mailbox by entering "/spam" at the end of your username before the "@" symbol, and by using the same password as the original mailbox.

    E.g. zen123456/spam@zen.co.uk

    E.g. example@email/spam.myzen.co.uk

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