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Mail automatically files what it deems junk into a Junk mailbox, where it’s much easier

to scan and delete the messages en masse.

Tip: Don’t miss the “Trust Junk Mail headers sent by your Internet Service Provider” option in the Junk Mail

pane of the preference window. If you turn on that checkbox, Mail will take your ISP’s word that certain

messages are spam, giving you a double layer of protection.

Address Book

Address Book is Mac OS X’s little-black-book program—an electronic Rolodex where

you can conveniently stash the names, job titles, addresses, phone numbers, email

addresses, and Internet chat screen names of all the people in your life (Figure 10-13).

Of course, Address Book can hold other related information too, such as birthdays

and anniversaries, as well as any other tidbits of personal data you’d like to keep at

your fingertips.

Once you make Address Book the central repository of all your personal contact

information, you can call up this information in a number of convenient ways:

• You can open Address Book and search for any contact by typing just a few letters

in the Search box.

• Regardless of what program you’re in, you can use a single keystroke (F12 by

default) to summon the Address Book Dashboard widget (page 108). There, you

can search for any contact you want, and hide the widget with the same quick

keystroke when ...