Entourage
Last modified: October 13 2005 11:39 am
Please ensure that your e-mail account is working correctly before using this guide. If you are able to send and receive e-mails without any problems, you should not have any difficulties using this guide to filter junk mails into a 'Junk Mail' folder.

To begin open Entourage

1)Select your e-mail account

2)From the menu bar, click on 'File'
3)Highlight 'New'
4)Select 'Folder' from the list

5)Enter a folder name i.e. Junk Mail
6)Click the [Create] button to continue

7)From the menu bar, click on 'Tools'
8)Select 'Rules' from the drop list

9)Click the 'Mail (IMAP)' tab
10)Click the [New] button

11)Enter a folder name i.e. Spam
12)Click the [Arrows] and
13)Select 'Specific header' from the drop list

14)Type in 'X-SpamDetect'
15)Type in '****'
16)Click the [Arrows] and
17)Select 'Move message' from the drop list
18)Click the [Arrows] and
19)Select 'Choose folder...' from the drop list
20)Click the [OK] button to continue

21)Highlight 'Junk Mail'
22)Click the [Choose] button to continue

23)Click the [OK] button to continue

24)Click the [Close] button

Your mail filter should now be in place. You should find that any filtered junk mail has been filtered out into the "Junk Mail" folder.

The spam filter by default defines anything with a "spam score" of 5 or more as probably spam. You can personalise the filtering rules to be more or less restrictive by increasing or decreasing the number of asterisks after 'X-SpamDetect:'.

For example, if you wanted to consider anything with a score of 3 or more to be spam, the rule would look like: 'X-SpamDetect: ***'. Decreasing the number of asterisks will result in classifying more e-mails as spam. You may need to check your spam folder more carefully for non-spam e-mails that might have been classified as spam. If you wanted to rate anything with a score of 8 or greater as spam, the rule would look like: 'X-SpamDetect: ********'. Increasing the number of asterisks may result in fewer filtered e-mails being classified as spam and more potential spam staying in your Inbox.