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CHAPTER 11 MAIL, ADDRESS BOOK, AND iCAL
Next you can choose certain criteria for messages that should never be marked as Junk. You
can exempt mail from people in your Address Book, people in your Previous Recipients list, or
e-mail that is addressed using your full name. Exempting people listed in your Address Book and
Previous Recipients list is usually safe; however, we find that for whatever reason lots of junk
mailers tend to know our full names, so this option is bit more questionable.
The “Trust junk mail headers set by my Internet Service Provider” option allows Mail to
look at certain e-mail headers that are commonly used by ISPs and mail servers to rate the probability
that a message is junk. The results of using this option are mixed depending on your mail
server.
NOTE We leave this option checked since it covers all our accounts; however, one of our primary
e-mail accounts has its own junk mail quarantine, and we find that when we release a
message from this quarantine, Mail will flag it as Junk when it hits the Inbox since the headers
identifying it as Junk on the mail server are still intact.
The “Filter junk mail before applying rules” option will identify mail as junk before looking
at any other rules. This option could prevent rules from running on messages that Mail considers
junk. If this option in unchecked, then, unless you specify a custom junk mail action, the junk
filter will work after your mail rules are run, thus allowing them to affect all messages.
The Reset button will reset all of your junk mail options and reset all the junk mail training
you have done.
Creating Mailboxes and Folders to Store E-mails
Besides your Inbox and other special-purpose mailboxes and folders that Mail creates for you,
it’s likely you’ll want to create your own to organize any saved messages, as well as notes you
store in Mail.
NOTE In Mail, folders are synonymous with mailboxes. Mailboxes you create will actually
appear as folders, and although you can store both mail and notes in them, they are still generally
called mailboxes in Mail.
To create a new mailbox, simply select Mailbox ➤ New Mailbox from the menu bar or
select New Mailbox from the menu that appears when you click the + button in the lower left of
the Message View window. This will open a dialog box with a text field to enter the name of
your new mailbox and a drop-down list for you to choose where you want the mailbox to be created.
In general, new mailboxes are stored On My Mac (that being your Mac), which means they
are kept locally. If you have access to an IMAP mail account (which includes .Mac as well as any
Exchange servers you have added), then you can also create folders on the remote mail server
this way (since IMAP stores your mail remotely). This will make those mailboxes and the items
stored within them accessible from any computer you have set up to access that account.
Once you create mailboxes, if you want to change its location, you can by selecting and
dragging the mailbox where you’d like it. To further add to the flexibility, mailboxes can be
nested (that is, mailboxes can reside in other mailboxes).
In addition to your standard mailboxes, you can also create smart mailboxes in Mail that
will dynamically contain messages based on the rules you define for your smart mailbox. Setting
up a smart mailbox in Mail is similar to setting up a smart folder in the Finder. It’s good to know
that like smart folders, messages added to smart mailboxes aren’t moved there; the message will
still remain in its regular mailbox as well.