Filtering Spam: Mozilla Thunderbird for Macintosh
This page contains instruction on how to set the Mozilla Thunderbird email client for Macintosh to filter your chemistry department email for spam.
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Instructions
1. Start Mozilla Thunderbird. In the menu, click Tools then Message Filters
2. Click New
3. Type a name for the filter (i.e., Junk). Next, select customize under the Subject selection menu.
4. Enter "X-Spam-Score" and click Add and then OK
5. Under the subject pull down menu, select X-Spam-Score. 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.
6. Check the box next to Move to Folder:
- Click New Folder…
- Name the folder Junk
- Create as a subfolder of Local Folders
7. Your email will now be filtered for spam. Junk mail will be placed in the Junk folder.