MobileMe Mail Help
Setting up MobileMe Mail to mark junk mail automatically |
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You can set up MobileMe Mail on the web to automatically mark email messages that it suspects might be junk mail by enabling junk mail filtering. After a message is marked as junk, you can also have it automatically placed in a Junk folder.
Note: Setting up MobileMe Mail to mark messages as junk affects only messages sent to your MobileMe email address.
To set up MobileMe Mail on the web to mark junk mail automatically and enable junk mail filtering:
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In MobileMe Mail on the web, choose Preferences from the Action pop-up menu in the toolbar at the top of the window.
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In the General pane, select the “Enable junk mail filtering” checkbox.
When this checkbox is selected, Mail automatically marks messages in your inbox that it suspects are junk mail by color-coding the message brown and adding “MobileMe thinks this message is Junk Mail” in the message header.
If Mail mistakenly marks a message as junk, click the Not Junk button in the email header to remove the color-coding.
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To have Mail automatically move any messages to a Junk folder, select the “Automatically move messages marked as junk to the Junk folder” checkbox.
If you choose this option, be sure to check the Junk folder occasionally and delete messages you don’t want to keep in order to free space on the mail server. Messages left in the Junk folder for more than 60 days are automatically deleted.
If you’ve set up Mac OS X Mail to retrieve your MobileMe email, you should also choose to move Mac OS X Mail junk messages to the Junk folder and to store Mac OS X Mail junk messages on the server (in Mac OS X Mail preferences). Otherwise, you may see two Junk folders in Mail.
Enabling junk mail filtering also allows you to manually mark messages as junk. For more information about managing junk mail, see Related Topics below.