Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition

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move, redirect, or forward messages—or even play a sound when you get a certain

message.

Consider, for example, what happens when you go on a trip. By setting up the

controls as shown in Figure 10-12, you’ll have specified that messages your boss

(identified as Winnie the Pooh in the illustration), sends to your .Mac account are

to be redirected to your vacation email address, [e-mail]. (The rest of the

mail will just have to wait until you’re home again.)

6. In the very top box, name your mail rule. Click OK.

Now you’re back to the Rules pane (Figure 10-12, top). Here you can choose a

sequence for the rules you’ve created by dragging them up and down. Here, too,

you can turn off the ones you won’t be needing at the moment, but may use again

one day.

Tip: Mail applies rules as they appear, from top to bottom, in the list. If a rule doesn’t seem to be working

properly, it may be that an earlier rule is intercepting and processing some message before the “broken”

rule even sees it. To fix this, try dragging the bad rule up or down in the list.

The Junk Mail Filter

Spam is the junk that now makes up more than 80 percent of all email, and it’s only

getting worse. Luckily, you, along with Mail’s advanced spam filters, can make it bet-

ter—at least for your email accounts.

You’ll see the effects of Mail’s spam filter the first time you check ...