Ingo Basics

• Click the name of the rule or the edit button to edit the rules.
• Click the New Rule button at the bottom of the Existing Rules display to create a new rule.
• Click the red X or the green checkmark in the Enabled column to change the status of any rule.
• Click the up or down arrows in the Move column to change the order of the rules.
• Click on the life preserver next to any item to display a help screen for that item.

Forward

If you are already logged into Ingo, skip to step 3. Otherwise, login by going to: http://uni.columbia.edu/filters/ You will need to type your UNI and password and click Log in. Click Forward at the top of the Ingo screen. Check the box labeled Keep a copy of messages in this account? if you wish to keep a copy of messages sent to you in your Columbia email. In the box labeled Address(es) to foward to:, type the addresses to which you wish to forward your mail. Each address must be on a separate line. Type complete addresses, and do not separate them with commas or any other punctuation. Click Save to save these changes.

Vacation

If you are already logged into Ingo, skip to step 3. Otherwise, login by going to: http://uni.columbia.edu/filters/ You will need to type your UNI and password and click Log in. Click Vacation at the top of the Ingo screen. Verify that your email address is in the box labeled My email addresses. The vacation rule will not work without it. If you wish to not have the vacation sent to certain addresses, list them in the box labled Addresses to not send responses to. You can leave this box blank. If you do fill in this box, you should type full addresses, and each should be on a separate line. Do not separate them with commas or any other punctuation. Check the box for Do not send responses to bulk or list messages if you wish the vacation message to not respond to mailing list emails. Note that this is not a perfect feature and that sometimes it will still respond to mailing lists in error, even if the box is checked. Set the Number of days between vacation replies. Sieve will wait that many days before sending a vacation reply to someone who has already received one from a previous message. The default value is 7 days. Set the Subject of vacation message. This is the subject of the message that will be sent to people attempting to contact you. In the box labeled Reason, type the body of the message that people should see when receiving a vacation reply. Click Save to save any changes you have made. Click Filter Rules at the top. To enable the vacation message, click the red X on the right in the column labled Enabled that lines up with the Vacation rule. Note that to disable, you would click the green check mark that lines up with the Vacation rule here.

Spam Filtering

1. If you are already logged into Ingo, skip to step 3. Otherwise, login by going to: http://uni.columbia.edu/filters/
2. You will need to type your UNI and password and click Log in.
3. Click Filter Rules at the top of the Ingo screen. Then, click New Rule at the bottom.
4. In the box labeled Rule Name, type what you would like to call this rule. We suggest Personal Spam Filter, but any name you will recognize will work.
5. In the area labeled For an incoming message that matches, from the first drop-down menu, choose X-Spam-Score.
6. in the second drop-down menu, choose Contains.
7. In the box on the right of the second drop-down menu, type the number of asterisks corresponding to the level of spam you would like to catch. For example, if you wanted to file all email marked as level 5 or higher, you would type 5 asterisks in this box. Keep in mind that the higher the spam score, the higher chance that the message is spam. The Columbia email system automatically blocks all mail with spam score equal to or greater than 8.
8. In the section labeled Do this, in the first drop-down menu, choose Deliver to folder.
9. In the second drop-down menu, choose possible-spam. If you do not see this folder listed, you can create it by choosing Create new folder or you can choose to use another folder that already exists.
10. Check the box labeled Stop checking if this rule matches.
11. Click Save.

Filtering Messages into Folders

1. If you are already logged into Ingo, skip to step 3. Otherwise, login by going to: http://uni.columbia.edu/filters/
2. You will need to type your UNI and password and click Log in.
3. Click Filter Rules at the top of the Ingo screen. Then, click New Rule at the bottom.
4. In the box labeled Rule Name, type what you would like to call this rule.
5. In the area labeled For an incoming message that matches, choose the field you want to match from the first drop-down menu. To filter based on the sender, for example, select From. More drop-down menus will appear based on this selection.
6. In most cases you will probably want to leave the second drop-down menu set to Contains.
7. In the box on the right of the second drop-down menu, type the text you want to match. If you want to filter based on the sender, you should enter the email address here, NOT their name.
   
   If you want to filter based on multiple criteria, fill out the second set of criteria boxes. You can choose to select based on all the criteria you list (AND) or if any one of them is matched (OR) by selecting All of the following or Any of the following at the start of the section.
8. In the section labeled Do this, in the first drop-down menu, choose Deliver to folder.
9. In the second drop-down menu, choose the folder where you want these messages delivered. If you want to use a folder that doesn't exist yet, you can create a new one by choosing Create new folder.
10. If you want all the messages flagged as seen, important, answered, or deleted, check the appropriate box under Mark message as:
11. Check the box labeled Stop checking if this rule matches.
12. Click Save.