Cox Email Settings

To access the different settings available within Cox Email, complete the following steps.

After signing in, click the Settings icon on the upper right. From the drop-down menu, click Settings.


 

From the Settings menu, select from the following choices for customization options for Cox Email users.


 

• Basic Settings
• Accounts
• Inbox
• Vacation Notice
• Auto Forward
• Filter Rules
• Blocked Senders
• Signatures
• Spam Settings
• Contacts
• Calendar

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Basic Settings 

Refer to the table below for details about Basic Settings.

Note: Some settings require a page reload to take effect.
 

Accounts 

Add external accounts by clicking Add account or change Cox Email display name by clicking Edit. After adding the external account, can add, edit, or delete settings related to your external email addresses synced with your Cox Email Inbox here.

Inbox 

Refer to the table below for details about the Inbox settings.
 

Vacation Notice

A vacation message can be set to automatically reply to incoming emails. Set up message rules and customize the following settings.

• Create a vacation message
• Select from the following message rules
  • Do not activate vacation message
  • Reply every time
  • Reply every time and append original message
  • Reply once to each sender

Auto Forward 

You can enter email addresses and customize rules for mail forwarding with the following settings.

• Disable forwarding
• Forward and keep a copy
• Forward, then discard

Filter Rules 

To help you ensure that incoming email from certain senders or entire domains do or do not get routed to specific folders, you can create, edit, and delete rules. Verify that all filter conditions and subsequent rule processes are correct and will function as you intend before saving your new or edited filter rules.

You can filter based on the following conditions.

• From
• To
• CC
• Any recipient
• Mailing list
• Subject
• Body
• Address
• Envelope
• Header
• Size
• Sent date
• Current date

To add new filters, click Add new rule.



Note: Only email that is not caught by a spam filter will be filtered by a filter rule.

Blocked Senders 

View the list of up to 250 email addresses or domains you've blocked to prevent them from sending you email. You can take the following actions to manage your blocked senders and blocked email.

• Allow or block email from individual senders or entire domains
• Delete blocked messages
• Place blocked messages in a folder
• Remove blocked sender email addresses or domains

Note: To add new email addresses to your blocked list, go to your Inbox, place a check in the box next to the email, then click the More actions icon. From the More actions drop-down menu, click Block sender.

Signatures 

Personalize your outgoing mail signature.

• Add a new signature
• Choose default for new messages and replies or forwards
• Edit existing signatures
• Delete existing signatures

Spam Settings 

In your inbox, click Mark as Spam on emails to report it to the Cox dynamic spam filtering system. Marking as spam does not block a sender from emailing you. To learn how to block a sender, see Filter Rules and Blocked Senders.

Note: When you use a unified mailbox and external accounts deliver email to your Cox Email inbox, you must go to your Cox Email inbox individually to be able to Mark as Spam. The unified mailbox view does not include the Mark as Spam option on email.

Set the following preferences for Spam emails.

• Mark as Spam and deliver to Inbox
• Put in Spam folder
• Delete Spam without delivering

Block large groups or amounts of spam.

• From your WebMail Settings menu, select Inbox then select Filter Rules.
• Add a new rule.
• Add a condition based on From, and then type in the domain of the email addresses that spam you.
• Add an action to either discard or file the emails from that domain into any folder of your choice, such as Trash. Filtering spam at the domain level is often more effective than blocking individual email addresses.

Contacts 

You can change the format of how names display in your contact list from the Contacts tab.

Display of names has the following options.

• Language-specific default
• First name Last name
• Last name, First Name

Link postal addresses with map service has the following options.

• Google Maps
• Open Street Map
• No link

Calendar 

Refer to the table below for details about Calendar settings.