30.11.09

Filtering Junk Mail Using Rules on Your Mac

Apple's, mac, Mail affairs on the Mac has congenital clutter mail filters that will bolt a lot of spam email. However, every already in a while spammers will get acute and alpha sending email that will fool the filters. You can physique your own rules using Mail so you never accept to see these letters again. The aboriginal affair you charge to do is to attending at a few of the clutter mail letters you are accepting to actuate what they accept in common. As an example, accept that they all accommodate links to Web sites with com.

cn in the URL.

These would be sites in China, and you don't feel you would anytime accept accepted email with links to chinese sites. Accessible up Mail and accept Mail, Preferences from the card bar. There will be a row of icons with labels at the top of the preferences window. Accept Rules. Then bang on Add Rule. You will now see a rather circuitous chat box area you can actualize your own aphorism to seek for an accord with specific pieces of email. Actualize a description, like "My Spam Clarify 1.

"

The set the aboriginal best to "all" so it reads "If all of the afterward altitude are met." Use the drop-down card to set the aboriginal activity to "Sender is not in my abode book." This will accomplish abiding the email is not from anyone you apperceive able-bodied abundant to be in your contacts list. Then columnist the + button on the appropriate to add a additional condition. Set it to "Message Content" "contains" and blazon "com.cn" in the accessible field. The aphorism will now administer to any email that has those characters in the physique of the message.

The next area is alleged "Perform the afterward actions."

Add two actions, the aboriginal getting "Move Message" to mailbox "Junk." The additional activity should artlessly be "Stop evaluating rules." This will anticipate a consecutive aphorism from cardinal this one. So now any email you get that contains "com.cn" and is not from a acquaintance will be beatific to your clutter mail clarify after you anytime accepting to see it. You could acting any cord of characters for "com.cn," but accomplish abiding that you accept these characters will alone arise in email you never wish to see.

It is a acceptable abstraction to analysis your clutter mail binder for the next brace of canicule to accomplish abiding that email you absolutely wish isn't getting somehow absent by the aphorism you set up. If it is, you charge to ascertain a added specific set of characters to attending for or add even added belief to your rule.