Filtering Spam: Mail.app
This page contains instruction on how to set the Mail.app email client to filter your chemistry department email for spam.
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Instructions
1. From the Mail menu select Preferences
2. Click Rules. Next click Add Rule
3. Type a name for the rule
4. Click From in the popup menu and select Edit Header List...
5. Enter "X-Spam-Score " as the header, click Add Header, then click OK
6. Click From in the popup menu again and now select X-Spam-Score. Next, enter the desired number of asterisks (e.g. *******) in the form next to "Contains"
Please Note: Messages that contain a large number of asterisks in their headers are classified by X-Spam-Score to be spam. The greater the number of asterisks, the more likely the message is spam.
Some messages that are spam may be labeled as non-spam and vice versa. If this happens, the number of asterisks in this section can be increased or decreased based on your preferences.
- If more asterisks are entered into this field, more messages will be delivered to your inbox.
- For example, if four (****) asterisks are entered, the filter will block all messages that have four (****) asterisks and above and place them in your junk folder. All message that have a X-Spam-Score of three (***) asterisks and lower will be delivered to your inbox.
- Under Perform the following actions, select Move Message to mailbox Junk. You may have to create a new folder.
7. Your email will now be filtered for spam. Junk mail will be placed in the Junk folder.