Hi Jennifer,
For spam that does make it as far as your Mac, Mail’s built-in junk mail filter
is your next line of defence.
But you have to turn it on and set it correctly for it to be of any use.
Did you originally set up Junk Mail in Mail? Mail > Preferences - Junk Mail?
If not Follow these steps:
• Go Mail > Preferences > Junk Mail.
• Make sure “Enable junk mail filtering” is checked.
• Under “When junk mail arrives,” select “Move it to the Junk mailbox.”
• Make sure these checkboxes are checked:
• ‣ “Sender of message is in my Contacts”
• ‣ “Sender of message is in my Previous Recipients”
These will help prevent Mail from misidentifying legitimate messages as spam.
5. Uncheck “Message is addressed using my full name.”
You will then need to Train Your Junk Mail Filter
Mail’s Junk Mail filter gets smarter and more accurate as you use it— but only
if you tell it the truth! That means always correcting it when it makes a
mistake.
If Mail fails to move a spam message to Junk, select it and click the Junk
button on the toolbar.
In addition, scan your Junk mailbox every few days or so to make sure Mail
hasn’t mistakenly marked a good message as spam. If you find a legitimate
message, select it, click the Not Junk button on the toolbar or click the Move
to Inbox button at the top of the message; either way, Mail both marks the
message as Not Junk and returns it to your Inbox. (If you don’t see the Junk
or Not Junk button, that’s because they’re the same button—the name changes
depending on whether Mail thinks the selected message is spam or not.)
Kind regards,
Ronni
> On 21 Jun 2019, at 11:41 am, Jennifer Lefroy <lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you Ronni, but I use gmail only for WAMUG. I use Mac Mail for my other
> two accounts for which I need the rules I think.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jennifer
>
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 06:51, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com
> <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote:
> Hi Jennifer,
>
> You are using Gmail so you shouldn’t have to wait until your email arrives in
> Mail to filter out spam.
> Gmail spam filtering happens server-side ‘behind the scenes’.
> If you find a message in your Junk mailbox that Gmail has incorrectly marked
> as spam, you can simply drag it to your Inbox and Gmail will then be less
> likely to filter out a similar message in the future.
>
> You can Mark the email as Spam in Gmail. 1. Select the email -2. Click Report
> spam
> Note: When you click Report spam or manually move an email into your Spam
> folder, Google will receive a copy of the email and may analyze it to help
> protect users from spam and abuse.
>
> https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1366858?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en&oco=2
>
> <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1366858?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en&oco=2>>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ronni
>
> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>
> macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
>
>> On 20 Jun 2019, at 6:21 pm, Jennifer Lefroy <lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Good Evening Everyone, I have been trying to set yet another rule for
>> moving incoming spam to junk, but I am being asked to put in a description
>> at the toad Ewell as the individual condition. I don't remember doing this
>> before and have not been able to find on Google what it refers to. Can
>> anyone help, please?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jennifer Lefroy
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