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The number one thing all MIA volunteers must do to avoid receiving spam is to use an alias. See the procedure for implementing an alias.
But even when you follow our guidelines for using an alias and keeping it discreet, you will eventually start to receive spam. Here is what you must do. Our Horde email application allows you to create folders.
You must have a folder named “good” (or beginning with these characters) and file all or almost all good emails in this folder when you have read them.
You must have another folder called “spam” and the Horde email system will put all emails which it determines to be spam into it.
Regularly check the contents of your spam folder, in case the system places messages in their erroneously, which need to be moved.
Horde uses a statistical method based on the contents of everyone’s spam and good folders to decide what is spam. So the system depends on everyone participating.
If you use an email application, such as Thunderbird, you can manipulate folders from there, so long as you make sure to “subscribe” to folders. But it may be easier to visit https://www.marxists.org/imp/