My New Mac, Lion Edition

Using Junk Mail Filtering

To deal with the inevitable flood of junk email every email account receives, the Mail program includes built-in junk mail filtering. To use Mail’s junk mail filtering, you need to turn it on, tell Mail what to do with junk mail, and tell Mail how to identify junk mail.

Configuring the Junk Mail Filter

By default, Mail’s junk mail filter is turned on, but here’s how you can turn it off or on and modify how the filter behaves:

1. Start the Mail program. (Click the Mail icon on the Dock or double-click the Mail icon in the Applications folder.)

2. Select Mail ▸ Preferences. A Preferences window appears.

3. Click the Junk Mail button. A Junk Mail window appears, as shown in Figure 48-1.

   Figure 48-1. The Junk Mail window lets you configure ...