Your online cPanel comes with comprehensive spam filtering capability. This will work much better than the junk mail filter in Outlook, for two reasons:
1) It can filter and block on many things besides just the sender address, which is often fake anyway, and
2) It filters it out before it ever reaches your computer.
You will find the spam filtering capabilities under the Mail area, under either Account Level Filtering (which applies to all email addresses within your account), or User Level Filtering, which applies only to the nominated email address.
Once you are in the chosen area, you then click Create a New Filter. If you already have some filters, you can also edit existing ones.
Each filter must have a unique and descriptive name. You then set the rules that you want to apply. You can filter on the sender, the recipient, the subject, the content of the email and much more. Set it to something that is unique to the spam emails and not likely to be contained in a genuine email. The more detailed the phrase, the more precisely the filter will work but be careful not to make it too precise, or it will not remove enough spam.
You can add more than one rule for filtering spam so that if it matches any rule it will be discarded. It is better to do this than to put all options in the one rule, as then it will only discard the message if it matches all of them.
Carefully adjusting your spam filters can reduce a flood of similar spam emails to barely a trickle very quickly.
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