Spam Filter Settings

The battle against spam never ends. You will be receiving email from a variety of volunteers throughout the class. Historically, many of these emails end up quietly filtered into spam. You have two options:

1. Regularly review your spam folder for the duration of the class, or

2. Adjust spam filter settings to decrease the risk of losing messages to your spam filter.

Approach #1 means you won't miss anything, but you might as well disable your spam filter altogether, which isn't realistic for many of us.

The recommended approach is to start with a simple, coarse rule and refine as needed.

• Allow anything with wac in the subject line (gmail instructions below show this).

• Allow anything from wac*@googlegroups.com

• Allow anything from *@washingtonalpineclub.org

• You will still receive emails from volunteer instructors that don't match any of these rules and could end up in spam. It's tricky!

Gmail instructions

The simplest rule is simply to allow anything mentioning wac.

1. In gmail do a search for wac and click the right most icon Search Options