How to Create a Junk Mailbox in Mac Mail
After you start using an email account to exchange messages with friends, family and colleagues, you might receive junk mail. For example, messages appear from people you have never heard of or corresponded with, offering to sell you products that you have zero interest in buying. As junk mail increases, it can be a chore to sort through it to see the legitimate email that you care about. When you use the free Mail application that Apple installs on every Mac, you can enable it to create a junk mailbox.
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Instructions
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Click the "Mail" icon in the Dock on your Mac to launch Apple's native email application.
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Check for email and send messages to people. By default, Apple's Mail application has junk email filtering on. Whenever you receive a message that Mail thinks is junk email, it flags it by making the text appear brown in your inbox.
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Click on a message marked as junk by Mail that you do not consider to be junk, and then click "Not Junk" at the top of the Mail window. This helps train Mail to figure out the kind of email that you consider junk. Allow the Mail application to learn what you consider junk mail for a few weeks, and then evaluate how good a job it is doing at flagging unwanted mail for you.
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Click "Preferences" from the Mail menu, then click "Junk Mail" and adjust the settings for how it filters junk mail as needed.
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Click "Preferences" from the Mail menu, and then click "Junk Mail" after Mail demonstrates sufficient accuracy in flagging junk email. Click the "Move it to the Junk Mailbox (Automatic)" option. This creates a "Junk" mailbox in the left pane of the Mail window. The Mail application now automatically sends what it considers to be junk mail to this "Junk" mailbox. Periodically check the contents of the junk mailbox to see if any mail winds up there that you actually want to read.
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