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When you select a message, its contents will appear below the message list area in the message
view area of the Message Viewer window. You can scroll through it there, or if you doubleclick
the message item in the message list area, the message will open in a separate window.
Dealing with Junk E-mail
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Mail has a built-in system to help you identify and deal with junk mail, or spam. This system is
actually quite genius and can be trained to be as accurate as any spam/junk filter out there. The
key point is that it must be trained. By default, Mail’s junk filter is pretty average as far as filters
go, but as you mark missed messages as Junk and mislabeled good mail as Not Junk, Mail will
learn over a fairly rapid period of time what you consider to be junk and what you don’t.
Most of the configurable options regarding how junk mail works are contained on the Junk
Mail tab of Mail’s preferences (Figure 11-7).
Figure 11-7. The Junk Mail tab provides options regarding how Mail deals with mail it considers to
be spam.
The first option on the Junk Mail preferences tab is to enable junk mail filtering. Below that
are options for what Mail should do with e-mail it considers junk. The “Mark as junk mail, but
leave it in my Inbox” option is the best choice when you are first training Mail as to what you
consider junk and what you don’t. When you think Mail is identifying junk mail at a good rate,
you can alter this setting. The “Move it to the Junk mailbox” option will create a new mailbox
called Junk where, when this option is activated, Mail will store junk mail rather than your
Inbox. The final option, “Perform custom actions,” will allow you to set up a custom mail rule
for dealing with junk mail when you click the Advanced button. We cover setting up mail rules
in the “Creating Mail Rules” section.
NOTE The Erase Junk Mail menu item in both the Mailbox menu and the contextual menu
available from the mailbox area of the Message View window will cause any messages stored
in your Junk mailbox to be immediately deleted—not stored in the trash, but gone. This is
both a handy way to rid yourself of trash and an easy way to accidentally rid yourself of an
important message that was flagged as Junk by mistake.