OpenOffice.org 2, Firefox, and Thunderbird for Windows All in One [Electronic resources]

Greg Perry, M. T. Cozzola, Jennifer Fulton

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160. Handle Junk Mail

154 Get Your Email

161 Organize Incoming Mail

160. Handle Junk Mail

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Unfortunately, even with the convenience of almost instant communication through

email , there's a downsideanyone who has your address can send you email. This means that, just like your mail box at home, you can't prevent junk mail (spam) from arriving. Although your email service provider might provide some spam controls (and you should enable them, when they're available), the truth is that because large email providers are typically targeted by spammers, spam gets through anyway. What you can do with junk mail that gets through, however, is to teach Thunderbird what to do with itfrom moving it into a special folder so that you can review it when you have time, to simply deleting it as soon as it arrives.

1.

Choose Tools, Junk Mail Controls

Choose

Tools, Junk Mail Controls from the menu. The

Junk Mail Controls dialog box appears.

2.

Select Account

Open the

Configure Junk Settings for list, and select the email account for which you want to set junk mail controls. Here, I selected

Local Folders, which covers both of my email accounts (both accounts are under the

Local Folders heading in the

Folders list of the main Thunderbird window).

3.

Select Desired Settings

On the

Settings tab, select the junk mail options you want. Under

White Lists , you can make sure that emails from people in your address book are not marked as junk.

Under

Handling, you can tell Thunderbird what to do with junk mail. You can move the junk mail to a special folder or delete the messages.

Under

Logging , click the

Junk Mail Log button to create a file that tracks junk mail activity. You might use such a file to track what happened to a particular message, for example.

4.

Enable Junk Mail Filtering

Unless you want to manually mark all junk mail messages, you should turn on junk mail filtering. Click the

Adaptive Filter tab and turn on the

Enable adaptive junk mail detection option. Click

OK .

5.

Mark Junk Mail

To get the most out of Thunderbird's junk mail adaptive filter, you should mark specific messages as junk when they come in. That way, Thunderbird learns to identify the type of junk mail you get and takes care of similar messages in the future.

To mark a message as junk, select it and choose

Message, Mark, As Junk or click the

Junk Mail button to the right of the

Sender column in the message header.